Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the team expects to specialize in the downhill and slalom events, jumpers and cross-country men are needed to round out the roster. The first real test will come with the Lake Placid Carnival in the latter part of December...
...unmistakable figure among New Deal Turks young & old. "Prich" had even the most bumptious of them aghast at his energy and his good-natured brass. On any point in economics, politics, history, the law or cocktail-mixing, an opinion from "Prich" came down with the crashing finality of a round from a 16-inch naval gun. No doubts assailed...
...sold over $250,000,000 worth of bonds. The Treasury got his permission to imitate the idea. Now Elman is putting Auction to postwar profit. He got an auctioneer's license (he gets 20% commission on sales), a sponsor, and fifteen assistants to help him round up and check on items...
Next week the Army will blaze another trail. The Air Transport Command will start a weekly round-the-world air service from Washington, D.C., via the Azores, Cairo, India, China, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. The globe-girdling will be done in Douglas 40-passenger C-54s, will take 151 hours. Fare for civilian passengers (who must have military certificates of necessity...
...cattle to market bumped smack into a manpower shortage at the Midwest packing houses. By working 60 hours a week, the federally inspected packers managed to carve up the 350,000 head of cattle that arrived last week (highest number since February 1942). But unless the packers can round up thousands of their old employes who threw down their knives and cleavers for higher pay in other industries when war began, they will be in trouble when the cattle run reaches its peak, some time in October...