Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate passed the Maloney bill, 44-to-29, setting up an independent Civilian Supply Administration. Donald Nelson had already set up a brand-new civilian supply division, headed by pint-sized Arthur D. Whiteside. On Czar Whiteside in the last fortnight Nelson had lavished new powers and prerogatives, in a desperate attempt to stave off the Senate bill. Result: Czar Whiteside now has the world's most ambiguous job. If the House shares the Senate's conviction that the home front will never get an adequate hearing within WPB, Mr. Whiteside's goose is cooked...
...Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...
Good news for the guys who gave a pint of blood rather than go swimming this week. (Dick Custer fells me it's a lot more fun). As soon as the "ground is dry," we're going to have a complete sports program. So that every man can include in the sport of his own choosing "Momma, mail my riding boots and tennis vacquet. I'm going rowing on the Charles!" ... Athletic gear will be here in short order, so get ready to sign some more charge slips...
Privation in the Northwest. In Oregon, liquor rationing reduced every citizen's weekly consumption to a pint of gin, two quarts of whiskey and one and one-fifth gallons of rum or brandy...
Dunstedter's prize catch for the group is swarthy, pint-sized Private Woodrow Wilson Rich (famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...