Word: partners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sprigle changed his name to Alois Vondich, shaved off his moustache, bought a 69? cap, and smoked stogies whenever any black marketeer was looking. He got himself an old truck, and a "partner" who knew something about meat. Within three weeks he had bought from wholesalers (at about double the ceiling prices) nearly 1,300 pounds of beef, 176 pounds of veal, 250 pounds of smoked hams and pork shoulders, 225 pounds of bacon. A ton of meat was his goal, and he made it-without ever paying a red point. To show it could be done, he also bought...
...lowest earned-run average (2.38) in the National League by shutting out Pittsburgh; Detroit's Dizzy Trout won twice in six days, proving that his right arm was not burned out from overwork (he labored 352 innings last year, won 27 games); Trout's pitching partner, Lefty Hal Newhouser, lost-his first, came right back to beat Cleveland, 3-to-2 in 11 innings...
...aging ladies in purple velvet and flowered hats come to recall a bygone day, brash youths come to scoff at a legend. Silver-haired Ruth St. Denis, 67, high priestess of the dance, was returning to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall stage, with Ted Shawn, 53, her husband and partner from whom she had separated 13 years...
...German war machine had been a prime target of Allied bombers. Last week U.S. Ninth Armymen rolled past the debris, a few miles farther south overran the high-walled Villa Hügel, secluded estate of powerful, mysterious Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Herr President of Krupp, silent partner of Naziism, now wanted by the Allies as a war criminal...
...boss of the Pacific war. The boss will be the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They will continue to run the show from Washington. Directly responsible to the Joint Chiefs for "conducting specific operations" will be General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, with a third partner-Hap Arnold of the Army Air Forces...