Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the Sub Base at Pearl Harbor, "Mush" Morton and the Wahoo were a legend. Mush, Kentucky-born, was a solid man with a shock of blond hair, a wrestler's shoulders and a jaw like a boulder. The Wahoo was a lean, sinister submarine...
...polled several months ago, thumbed down such gewgaws. They voted for war news first, political news from home second, educational features third. There are a few standard informational sections (movie schedules, lost & found, etc.). The rest of Guinea Gold is packed, seven days a week, with more than 100 solid news nuggets, many filched from short-wave broadcasts...
...Solid, spectacled "Tommy" Holcomb announced briefly this week that he was retiring as head of the Marine Corps, seven years to the day after he took com mand. His successor: 56-year-old Lieut...
...Bank for International Settlements, reorganized, refurbished and given plenty of new muscles to do the tremendous job. Said he: "We should build on the experienced machinery we have, instead of creating elaborate new machinery. . . . The program may seem modest. Yet, this realistic approach represents the best entry on a solid road towards the reconstruction of international money...
Helen Walsh was pretty, sensitive and warmhearted, and her sister Lydia, seven years older, was watchful, forthright and kind. Hackettston, Conn., where they lived with 9,174 other people much like themselves, was a quiet, ordinary, clean and well-kept town. George Peterson, who married Helen, was a solid businessman who flushed uncomfortably when he admitted his philosophy of life: "It's worth something just to hear the machines going till 5 o'clock again...