Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctor's Orders. In London, Mrs. Ethel Roys, told that her house was on fire, shouted that she was under doctor's orders to stay in bed, followed instructions, died in flames...
...Field when the Navy took over. I got chased out of Idlewild when LaGuardia wanted it. If I get chased out of here I swear I'll go to Mexico." A dubious housewife, who guessed UNO wouldn't want her 100-year-old house, asked: "If I stay here could I keep on being an American citizen...
Three single-motored planes roared over the heads of the pickets and over the plant's wire fence, landed safely inside the gates. Out tumbled bags of bread, meat, canned goods and cigarets-provisions for the company stay-ins. Promptly the union hired a patrol plane to find the company's base of operations. It never did; the supplies kept coming...
...Spanish, and nominate him for the island's highest office. A few days later old line Nacionalistas held a nominating convention in Giro's, another nightclub, and put Osmeña's name on the ballot. The Philippines were devastated and flat broke. They would stay that way until the dilatory U.S. Congress passed legislation granting $450,000,000 for postwar rehabilitation. But now the future at least promised excitement. The hottest political campaign in island history-and the one which would provide the first President of the new Philippines Republic-was under...
...emancipated girls were in no hurry to leave the Yoshiwara. Said one resident: "With the terrible housing shortage we'd rather stay here." Only nine out of 310 prewar brothels, with their yellow balconies and pink window shades, had survived the B-29s. But shacks were being built with record speed. Business was booming, with about half the customers Americans...