Word: run
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before...
With a soldier's knack for getting right to the bottom of things, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery thought he knew how to find out if his World War II commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, will run for the U.S. presidency in 1952. Arriving in Manhattan for conferences, Monty said: "I shall ask Ike if he is going to run when I see him next week...
Their foe in Pasadena on Jan. 2 would be California, the Pacific Coast Conference's all-conquering champions, who got a scare from arch-rival Stanford last week. Stanford was ahead, 14-12, in the third period, when Jack Swaner, California's star halfback, began to run wild. Final score: California 33, Stanford...
...supposed to guide the U.S. fiscal policy, Secretary of the Treasury John Wesley Snyder. Said he: "The general economic welfare of the country should be the guiding principle in determining . . . whether the federal budget should be balanced." What he meant was that the U.S. should run a deficit in depression times and pay it off in good times-in other words, balance the budget over a period of years. But if this was the policy, why was the U.S. running a deficit now? John Snyder's answer was at least partly political. The root of the trouble he said...
...team, and Charles Deere Wiman, president of the century-old John Deere Plow Co. and brother of Theatrical Producer Dwight Deere Wiman. Virtually unknown was spruce Henry Crown, 53, who took his place (with Norris) on the Rock Island's executive board last week, and began to help run the railroad...