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...fact, the bottom has practically dropped out of the market. Pom pom is now available on almost any Cambridge street corner for just five (5) cents...
Explanation of this amazing circumstance is simple. A local candy maker, anxious to find just the right evocative name to describe his latest confection, was swept away by a zeal for imagery; "Pom Poms" are the result, now on sale at your favorite drug or cigar store...
Doffing their football togs to discuss what they hope will be a football victory tomorrow, Captain Clco O'Donnel and teammate 'Pom Gannon will join with Crimson Networker Gerry Weller tonight in this week's edition of "The Harvard Sports Parade...
...Tactically Logical Cruiser for Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
Down below us on the river was a large ship, and out of it came bursts of fire; balls of red flecked with white began shooting toward our plane. Japanese ack-ack guns and pom-poms were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us. Then our plane began to tremble and shake, and from our belly red balls of fire began shooting down toward the Jap ship. Puffs of white smoke flowered in the air far below our plane. They were so far away I couldn't help laughing, but plainly we could see our tracers going straight...