Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years there was good reason for the South to stick to the Democratic Party, because of the party's stand on States' rights, the tariff and race relations. These reasons are gone. There is no material difference in the treatment of the race problem by the Republican Party and the present Democratic Party...
...store uses a cigar box with four compartments to sort out its stamps. In Atlanta another small grocer has his children work nights, and devotes all of Sunday to the job. In Philadelphia recently OPA failed to provide enough of the gummed sheets on which grocers are supposed to stick their ration coupons before turning them in to the wholesaler. As a result, salesmen of wholesaling houses came in with their pockets stuffed with ration coupons, dumped them into bushel baskets. The baskets were presented to the bank for counting; the bank turned the mess back...
...twelve months ago, clothed in the tragic glory of Bataan, he had come down from the skies to take command of United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific. Australia would never forget the sight of him, striding confidently in his washed-khaki jacket, gold-braided cap and bamboo swagger stick, lifting Aussie hopes. His coming changed the country. His year changed...
Until someone turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
...most extraordinary thing about Pacific Huts is the way its men work. Recruited from nearby Venetian-blind, box and ladder factories, they stick to their jobs like leeches, work so fast they seem to be dogtrotting. Yet their pay (which averages $1 an hour) is no match for Seattle's shipyards. Moreover, Pacific Huts' absentee rate is a minuscule 1.5%, compared to about 8% at Boeing Aircraft's vast plant half a mile down the road, and about 4% for the region...