Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, after the worst political buffeting of his presidential life, Harry Truman turned up unannounced in Washington's First Baptist Church. The sermon topic: "The Silver Lining...
Shipbuilders' generosity rose and fell with the tide. One yard gave Cinemactress Greer Garson a $74 silver cigaret box. Another thought the wife of F.D.R.'s Chief of Staff William D. Leahy rated a $2,516.75 jeweled bracelet. Eleanor Roosevelt, for launching a light carrier, was given a tray, a photo album and warstamp corsage, altogether worth $553.50. The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pa., honored 252 women most handsomely; $750 was the least it ever spent on any one of them...
...sockeye salmon were coming home from roaming the Pacific Ocean. Now the silver traffic swarmed in millions into Juan de Fuca Strait and up the broad Fraser River. It was the biggest run in four years...
...Guadalcanal in 1942, Barney Ross got the Silver Star and a reputation as a Jap killer. He also got malaria. Brought home to the wartime U.S., he allowed his name and his medal to be exploited from coast to coast. Then he dropped out of sight. The next news of Barney Ross was when his showgirl war bride divorced him two months...
Married. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 48, silver-spoon socialite turned tinsel journalist, roaming New York Post columnist ("Vagabonding with Vanderbilt"), son of high society's dowager queen; and Maria Feliza Pablos, 29, grandniece of Mexico's onetime Dictator-President Porfirio Diaz; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Reno...