Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia has a rarely visited kingdom about four times the size of Texas, the right of life & death over 4,000,000 subjects; 1,000 automobiles; some 30 sons. To Washington last week, from Ibn Saud's sand-swept kingdom, came two of the latter-Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Feisal, his brother Prince Khalid-perhaps to discuss oil concessions to the U.S., perhaps to iron out problems concerning Palestine...
...year ago these lines curving across the hemispheres would have looked like wishful thinking. About a year ago every Allied line of attack seemed to be a line drawn in sand, to be erased by the next Axis tide. Russia's effort to attack at Kharkov had been wiped out and the Nazi armies flowed around Stalingrad. Rommel had rolled the British back from Bengasi and was beating against the gates of El Alamein. On the other side of the world the U.S. fought frantically to keep a toe hold on a 90-mile-long island in the Pacific...
Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...
...fortunate U.S. fighting men. This heavenly spot is Aitutaki, one of the Cook Islands, northeast of New Zealand and about 700 miles from Tahiti. It is four miles long by one and a half miles wide and has all standard equipment, including a magnificent lagoon, snow white sand, sapphire blue water, emerald green foliage, lush fruit trees, beautiful and amiable women...
Apparently many men were working on the assumption that if you send everything in with your returns you will inevitably have the necessary payroll vouchers. It is a good system but somehow we do not think its merits would be fully appreciated by either Sand...