Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fitzsimmons' solid gold razor...
Germans had blasted positions out of solid rock on Old Baldy. When a battalion was ordered forward across the flats, the enemy opened up with machine guns and mortars. The men walked through a place where the Germans knew they would have to go. The survivors moved against Baldy. E and K Companies got 200 yd. up the hill and hid in the rocks. L Company tried...
...nobody, down to the rawest delegate, was fooled by this coy talk. In deciding to make politics their No. 1 business, C.I.O. leaders were making a $5,000,000 gamble that they could forge the 12,000,000 U.S. labor union members into a solid voting bloc; that they could then offer these votes to Franklin Roosevelt in return for another New Deal, and that the President would run and be reelected...
Back to '28. The Republican swing hit hard. Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan. Sole potent Democratic city machine left, outside the Solid South, is Ed Kelly's Chicago juggernaut...
Overall monthly totals may conceal grave lags in the kind of bombers and fighters the armed forces need most. For window-dressing purposes, any month's total could easily be pushed to 10,000 by concentrating on trainer planes. But the October figures were solid, according to WPB production experts...