Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timely Offering. In Washington, the Commerce Department celebrated the advent of the R months by inviting bids on some surplus property: 74,998 silver-plated oyster forks...
Wearing a bouffant off-shoulder gown of pink net, pink gloves trimmed with silver, and a silver-and-rhinestone butterfly, Betty Tyson received more than 600 guests, including Navy Secretary and Mrs. James Forrestal, Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jim Farley and daughter...
...dependent (but none for additional dependents). Points required for discharge: enlisted men 44, officers 49, enlisted women 29, women officers 35. About 307,000 became eligible for dis charge; 20,000 more could get out who had won certain awards (Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Silver Star, D.F.C...
...Atomic Silver. The Treasury announced with some pride that 14,000 tons of its silver had been used in the manufacture of the atomic bomb. Its function: to replace critically short copper in the electrical connections of the manufacturing apparatus. WPB, acting for the War Department, was the borrower. WPB will have at least six months after the war is officially ended to get all the silver back...
...opportunities offered. The five victories registered have been over weak and on the most part inexperienced teams, who played worse ball than the Varsity. In evidence of this statement is the fact than 14 of the 41 tallies scored by Harvard have been handled one on a silver platter...