Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite stories of the hard-boiled 101st is about Don Pratt's first parachute jump, when the general's husky young aide was assigned to jump with him and pick up the pieces. General Pratt landed without a scratch and picked up the aide, who had broken...
Till then, Sinco had been riding high in the oil business. Starting from scratch, he had gambled in oil leases and wells until he got together $100,000. In twelve years, he parlayed this into the $4,739,370 Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., was on his way to becoming one of the U.S.'s biggest oil tycoons when the storm broke. For five years, Sinco sweated through Senate hearings, investigations and trials. He was acquitted on the major charge: conspiracy to bribe the late Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. But he went to jail for six months...
...agent for huge I. G. Farbenindustrie, with strictly U.S. drugs. In so doing, it: 1) surprised itself by making a lot of money (over $700,000 last year, almost 10% of its total net income); 2) became a potent agent in U.S. economic warfare. Starting from 'scratch on aspirin, for example - which used to be a $3,500,000-a-year I. G. business - Sterling has now developed more than that for its own trademarked product. Total gross in Latin America: $10,000,000 a year...
Painters got ready to scratch another name off a State Department door. The latest resignation: genial Laurence Duggan 38, Director of the Office of American Republic Affairs, for 14 years a career diplomat, longtime close friend of recently resigned Under Secretary Sumner Welles...
...Lord Catto last week explained his crest, which is "Touch not gloveless." Said he: "It Is a Scots motto, and means literally, do not touch the cat with a gloveless hand; it may scratch you. Appropriate, yes, but it has nothing to do with my name. The College of Heralds would not make a pun, you snow. Catto means fight, battle...