Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weather has always been a point of concern with Supply School students as a good, solid rain in the early hours of the morning means almost a sure excuse from calisthenics. It seems that only rain will turn the trick for the last few morning have been cold, but we were up and out. An analyst of our situation might suggest that the calisthenics should warm us up, but we aren't is naive as all that...
Winston Churchill had good cause to feel pleased. Despite the wrangle over a "second front" he had persisted in putting first things first so that now Britain's lifeline from Gibraltar to Malta to Alexandria was secured. The solid red lines on the map showed more than the routes of a southern invasion of Europe. They showed that the geographical sinews-if not the social and political sinews-of the British Empire, upon which the U.S. depended too, had been saved and restored. That was one reason why Mr. Churchill was pleased to call the Mediterranean the "third front...
...solid market exists in Freeborn County for 2,296 new cars, for 646 refrigerators, 578 furniture sets, 442 new city homes, 360 barns, 360 silos, 780 tractors, 810 prefabricated small farm buildings (Albert Lea has a factory that makes them), 986 vacation trips at an average cost...
Such was the solid conclusion of the Navy's three-year-progress report published last week. Highlights...
...Said Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes last week: "Coal production has been unable to keep pace with the expansion of war requirements. The situation is bad and getting worse...