Word: seale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edsel seldom made headlines, either in his stewardship or in private life. His houses in Detroit, Seal Harbor and Hobe Sound were lavish. He had three yachts. But his likes were extremely simple. In the evenings, he often sat around playing hearts, rummy or backgammon with his family. At his $3,000,000 Seal Harbor house, he loved to prowl along the rocky Maine coast with his wife, Eleanor Clay Ford (whom he had married in 1916), to find a cozy corner in the lee of a boulder and read to her in his soft, shy voice. He played tennis...
...hungry gullets of tommy guns, Brownings, Chicago pianos and automatic cannon. The researchers had plenty of troubles. One of the worst was the shortage of such alloying elements as nickel, chromium, tung sten and molybdenum. But eventually they developed a noncritical steel which would expand on firing to seal the breech, then contract quickly enough to permit ejection of the empty case...
Cooperation between air and land had never been so smooth for the Allies. Said Marshal Coningham to his flyers after the victory: "The capture of Tunis and Bizerte sets the seal on your past mastery and present dominance of African air. But of deeper significance and more lasting value is the record of intimate collaboration with land forces in their battle. You have been true comrades in arms...
Poet William Rose Benét and Authoress Marcia Davenport said they had read the novel in galley proofs, and denounced the "political" campaign. In no time at all the Communist drive to suppress The Fifth Seal had turned into a fine publicity boom...
...Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...