Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loam in the Sama Clara Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were some of the West Coast's 70,000-odd Nisei. Their honorable ancestors were Japanese...
Gone Reilly, House champ, and Joe Kameese are the top men in the 145 class, while A. Petite and Kay Brokaw lend the pack...
...Germans claimed that seven ships totaling 52,000 tons had been destroyed in a running attack on one convoy -a claim brutally confirmed when in survivors landed in Canada. They estimated that six to nine ships had been lost, said their listening devices indicated a pack of at least five U-boats...
...gave beekeepers A-3 priorities on materials for all production of honey up to their 1940 level, tin to pack as much honey (in 5-lb. or bigger containers) as they could turn...
...Smith and her helpers were considerably annoyed last week by the activities (presumably) of a rich group of freelance prohibitionists in Chicago, who had begun sending 500,000 packs of playing cards, whose backs were inscribed with anti-bibbing slogans from Othello, to camps throughout the nation. Whatever the soldiers thought of the slogans, they found that, with four different quotations per pack in the first decks sent out, they could soon make a good guess at what opponents had in their hands. The W.C.T.U. was highly embarrassed when it got credit for issuing the cards. Mrs. Smith...