Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this feat the flight leader received the Silver Star, his copilot the Distinguished Flying Cross. The pilot of the wing ship received the Air Medal, the copilot nothing. The enlisted men received no decorations...
...change is a result of the war-the Medical Department wanted to spread the latest medical news (except secret material) among its personnel as quickly as possible. The man chosen for the job (which began with the October issue) was pink-faced, silver-haired Lieut. Colonel Johnson Francis Hammond, who retired from the army in ill health in 1920, was recalled in 1942. He spent the interim as news editor and assistant editor of the A.M.A. Journal...
Tell-Tale. In Tell City, Ind., Silver Raley advertised that he was "doing hauling of any kind with old, geed up, no good 1½ ton truck when it runs . . . charges are plenty high." Illusionists. The National Beauty and Barber Manufacturers' Association chided the U.S. Census Bureau for underestimating by some 33,000 the number of U.S. beauty shops...
...that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over $50,000 for his 337 pelts. But he regretfully foresees a fall in price as silver blus become more numerous...
...Tiggy-Winkle. She was English to the marrow, spoke in a spicy North Country accent, was deeply attached to her Lake Country. She often went out haying with the farmers, wearing buckled Lancashire clogs and wide straw hat. She never went out of England. Old English china, silver and furniture were her hobbies...