Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he picked on the Pacific School of Religion, Parry knew he was down to the bush leagues, and not long for them. Places like Pacific are quiet, but the haul is not likely to be big (the Pacific safe had $105 in it). He picked the spot because he was getting old and tired: he even found it hard working nights. To tell the truth, he summed up, safe robbing wasn't much of a career. "It has no future for a young man," gloomily concluded Lorenzo Parry. Then, thoughtfully, he added: "And no future...
...President rates the No. 4 spot -after the President, Vice President and Chief Justice, before the ambassadors...
Even with its reduced strength, the Pacific fleet should be able to handle any threat directed against the U.S. itself. But U.S. allies in the western Pacific were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...
...England, where the textile slump had already caused some 20,000 to be laid off, there was one bright spot. The U.S. Air Force awarded contracts for $20 million worth of woolen cloth. To get the business, mills had slashed their bids close to cost, in some cases below it. The catch was that the prices, as much as $1.25 a yard lower than those on civilian goods, were sure to increase the demand of retailers for cheaper goods...
Bobe Monsch '50 of New York City will take over Cabot Hall's top spot. Whitman Hall chose Jo'Ann Johl '50 of Floral Park, New York...