Word: platoonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuba, which has the largest (152,000) Communist Party in Latin America, the government has recently pried Communists out of control of most labor unions. Last week a platoon of husky maritime police marched down to the Havana docks, ejected the toughest leader of them all: sullen, 6-ft. Stevedore Boss Aracelio Iglesias...
...platoon of M.P.s cordoned the Soviet-run German railroad administration building. The official reason: contrary to the four-power rules, the Russians had installed armed sentries there. For 24 hours entry was denied all Russians, even two generals...
...easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans in the parlor alone); but the closet space is convincingly niggardly, and the bathroom problem is enough to tempt anyone to the wide open spaces...
Valpey confirmed reports that he would install a quasi-Michigan system, but the student on the street will have to wait till October 2, 1948 to view the spinning fullback and the two platoon system, Harvard style. "There will be no games and no outside scrimmages before Columbia," the new coach explained...
Last week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...