Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First WPB moderated this anti-bigness policy, allowed Calumet & Hecla to charge 17? for whatever it could take out of an abandoned, high-cost pit. Last week WPB went further, let it be known that henceforth it will allow all the big companies to negotiate prices on a mine-by-mine basis, will give them a fighting chance to get in on a bonus by stepping up the output from individual shafts...
...gist of the gory story is that English physicians have been baffled in attempting to cure Lucy Seward. Played by Claire Birsch, Vassar '44, she is being preyed upon by Dracula. A Dutch specialist, Professor Van Helsing, is called upon to pit his wits against the deadly vampire, who died 500 years ago and has lived on by sucking the blood of his victims...
...Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
...within five years after the operation, said Dr. Alvarez, the chances are that it never will. The recovery figures, he added, could be "greatly improved" if middle-aged people would go to their doctors as soon as they have these symptoms: indigestion, loss of weight, vomiting, pain in the pit of the stomach...
...Fire. At Newnan, 160 miles north, the skies were kinder to Talmadge's opponent, who put on a drier, better act. Young (35) Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, boy wonder of Georgia politics, was out to beat Talmadge at his own medicine-show game. He served up 100 pit-barbecued pigs, 1,200 gallons of Brunswick stew, a two-hour vaudeville show featuring the Coweta Cracker Crunchers...