Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some newspapers tried hard to meet the 15%-plus cuts in newsprint use requested by WPB for 1943. Many did not. Result: a piddling overall reduction of only 5% plus. Last week U.S. newspapers got a peek at the bad news...
Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business...
Veronica Lake and her three-year husband, Major John Detlie of the Army Engineers, decided to get divorced. The honey-haired refugee from the peek-a-boo explained: "We just don't think alike...
Roger Touhy, of Illinois Stateville Prison, was not allowed a peek when a movie called Roger Touhy-Gangster was previewed at the prison. Neither were any of the other prisoners admitted to the show. It was to start at 8:30. It was 10 before it did start. By that time the sound equipment had been repaired and the air sweetened. Somebody had cut an electric cable. Somebody had turned on the steam pipes...
Henry L. Stimson arrived quietly in England by air the day after he had taken an official peek at U. S. troops in Iceland. The trip was the 75-year-old Secretary of War's first to an operational theater since the U.S. entered...