Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holdback, a form of insurance against a poor yield the next year, is about 30% of crop. This year elevators and farm bins are clogged with about 150 million bushels of wheat-50% of the crop and more than one-fourth of the breadgrains the U.S. hopes it can send to Europe this winter...
...told Robert, was very anxious to ship a crate full of "fragile personal belongings" to her fiancé in Manhattan. Would Robert be an angel and take it to the airport for her? Carefully Robert set the box on a jeep and pocketed a cablegram written out by Sigrid: "Send $150 immediately and you will see me soon. Gitte." But the cable office would not send it unless Siedentopf signed it with his own name...
...Manhattan hall bedroom, Rolf Berndt puzzled over the strange cable: "Send $150. See Gitte soon, (signed) Siedentopf." Rolf was a cautious man. Says he: "I wasn't going to send money to someone I never heard of." So in the air freight office at Frankfurt, Private, Siedentopf and his fragile burden waited in vain while airport officials waved a bill for $130 freight charges. "Can't I send it C.O.D.?" asked the G.I. The answer was no. "Oh, well, then just store it. I'll be back." Into the storeroom went the box. After an uncomfortable...
...lady from Baltimore wanted to send her son to school. But the good boarding schools were mostly in New England, and she thought that her son was too young to be sent that far from home. Baltimore's public schools "gave off a nauseous odor," in the words of the city's own health commissioner. They were cramped and dingy, had no place where their pupils could play. So Mrs. Francis Carey rounded up a handful of like-minded mothers and they founded a school of their own-the first country day school in the U.S. Last week...
...Dodgers do it? Certainly without elegance. They were held together with baling wire, audacity, speed, and the uncanny strategy of Manager Burt Shotton. His tactic was unvarying: somehow to get through six or seven innings without getting too far behind, and then send for reliable old Relief Pitcher Hugh Casey...