Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night Shift. In Santa Monica, Calif., police charged that Edwin Kiedrowski, having noticed where a large bus was always parked for the night, had made off with it four times, operated a midnight-to-dawn service to Port Hueneme, 60 miles away, done a brisk business at 50? a passenger...
...military posts throughout the world. Thanks to a Nelson Rockefeller suggestion, Latin Americans will hear (if by any chance they are interested) a play-by-play description in Spanish. But no listener will be more excited than a Polish immigrant who will be getting ready for the night shift at a Steubenville, Ohio open-hearth steel furnace. His son is captain of the Army team...
...sensed a new reason for the slowness of the Italian campaign: their fight might be a gigantic diversion, a holding attack designed to keep as many Germans as possible engaged there while other invasions are devised and mounted. It appeared that the center of strategic gravity was beginning to shift to Western Europe...
...ragged. A railroad has been laid, but there are no busses or streetcars. In the spring and fall "it is no pleasant matter for the Workers to make their way home through the welling mud." But the vast factory hums with work, and thousands pass through its gates each shift. The buildings are camouflaged, for when they were built the foe was still within raiding radius...
...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...