Word: strandings
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...sports expert for Paris' L'Etoile du Soir, he confidently predicts that Sweden's Lennart Strand will be the first to run a four-minute mile. With the Wanamaker Mile behind him, Hansenne expects to give MacMitchell some uncomfortable moments in this week's Boston Hunter Mile. Experts agree that he is the most promising plodder to invade the U.S. in years, and that on an outdoor track he has Olympic class...
...affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand at a time, allocate materials, fix production quotas for the period between VE and V-J days. What businessmen said about this privately was often unprintable. They did not want to be led from war to peace; they wanted to pick up the ball...
...mark for the world's milers to shoot at. It would also leave U.S. indoor track promoters, who had hoped to offer their customers a winter fare of Hagg and Andersson, facing an immediately bleak future. One Simon-pure Swede who might help to brighten the picture: Lennart Strand, a newcomer who has beaten both Hagg and Andersson in recent months-apparently on an empty stomach...
...Cathedral is bitten by the fashionable bug of perpetual fidgeting, and is unable to remain still any longer. . . . It is due to crash into the Daily Express building in February 236,481 A.D. unless the Daily Express, feeling itself pursued, takes to its heels and crawls up the Strand...
...fact was that WPB had no intention of freeing industry at one sweep from its tight web of controls. Instead the controls will be lifted a strand at a time. This decision was made when it became plain that no one man knew how many U.S. soldiers in Europe would have to be completely re-equipped before they were transferred to the war in the Pacific...