Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military, though it takes only 10% of total shoe production, will now take 30% of the sole-leather supply, 40% of the cattle side upper leather. Reason: the Army's new high-cuff boot, now specified for soldiers in combat areas, takes three and a half times as much leather as an ordinary men's "dress" shoe. The Navy is now consuming 28% of all calf leather. Civilians this year will get 18% less leather...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill used to see the King one morning each week. Their sessions grew so long they were absorbing each other's entire half-day. Now Churchill lunches with the King one day a week, usually Thursday. Over grilled sole, or cold roast beef, washed down with whiskey and soda, the Prime Minister talks about the war, or the latest gossip of Downing Street. George VI and Churchill are gay and intimate friends, but Churchill does most of the talking. Churchill serves the King competently and with abiding respect, calls his monarch "Sir." The King...
...spectacular Connecticut-born soldier of fortune. Highlights of his early career: in '94 jailed in Brazil for running guns to the revolutionists; in '95 shipwrecked off South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled...
...Publisher Van W. Stewart of the Ochil-tre^ County Herald (circ. 2,045), longtime ardent Rooseveltian, editorially announced that he would vote against 16 years of F.D.R. (Sole exception: Dewey as the G.O.P. candidate...
Lance Corporal Tommy McGrath, an ama teur senior welterweight from Cardiff, Wales, was the sole British winner...