Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such signs the U.S. public learned last week that the newest section of The U.S. Army Air Forces-the Ferrying Command-had started to function. It was furiously busy clearing the pile-up of completed bombers for Britain that had clogged aircraft-factory parking areas. The Ferrying Command, organized only a month ago, had lost its first men. But that was an expected incident. More important, it was delivering ships-to the Atlantic seaboard for shipment by sea, to Canada for flying across the North Atlantic...
...problems continued to pile up on the President's desk like a range of mountains. For months the President had delayed and stalled, trying to avoid asking Congress to extend indefinitely the draftees' one-year term of service. When time began to close in on him, he still avoided direct personal leadership. Unwilling to buck the line himself, he sent in General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, to carry the ball and get the lumps. Good Soldier Marshall pounded down the field, through center, off-tackle, around the ends. The watching President couldn't believe...
...still carries a large lump in back of his left ear from approaching a pretty girl in Times Square during the '20s. "Good afternoon, madam-" he had no more than begun when, blam!, something pile-driving hit him from behind. Jimmy turned over and literally threw a punch from the pavement. After the cops had pulled Jimmy out of the crowd and heard his explanation, they told him to beat it and returned to chafing the wrists and temples of the girl's escort...
...reception from the home folks. For this earnest, rumpled newspaperman whom Republican Governor Harold Stassen chose last year to take the place of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen is an ardent crusader for President Roosevelt's foreign policy. And for over 25 years Minnesota has been a sand pile of isolationism...
...Britain. . . . He has a great record of trade union administration behind him, but it is of a peculiarly unrepresentative kind. . . . His tone is often dictatorial, revealing that he considers himself the master of his union rather than the servant of his union. ... He forgets he is perched on a pile of pennies...