Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most people who work for telephone companies believe in the doctrine of the voice with the smile. Last week it looked as if strapping, 49-year-old Carl Daubendiek of Jefferson, Iowa stood a good chance of going to jail because, for a two-hour stretch one night last December, he faltered in that belief...
...group of journalistic students who were enticed away from their typewriters long enough to go down to the Indoor Athletic Building and scoop the labor men by a score of 28 to 20. Starring for the Union men were Ray Frisch another mad hatter, and "Two Way Stretch" Pfeffer from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. The outstanding players for the journalists were "Scooper" Ethridge, former college star, and "Copy...
...will be an engineering and construction monument. It will tunnel 1,400 miles under eight states and 20 rivers and surmount the rolling Alleghenies. Now building in the South is an extension of Big Inch's smaller (maximum 11 inch) brother, the Plantation Line, which by June will stretch from Baton Rouge to Richmond. Oilmen figure that still another such line would be needed if both war and civilian needs are to be fulfilled...
...holy Moslem city of Kairouan. Seizure of Kairouan would threaten Axis communication lines along the whole Tunisian east coast. In the an, the Allies "accounted for two to one in individual combat," Mr. Stimson said. At week's end, able to get in the air again after a stretch of bad weather which had grounded them, Flying Fortresses escorted by P-38s and P-405 bombed Bizerte and Sfax. The P-40s were Warhawks, newest version of the Hawks (others: Tomahawks, Kittyhawks). making their debut on the Tunisian front...
Global War. "We are hooked up by air transport all over the world. Except for the comparatively small stretch of water between Australia and India, American communications encircle the earth. It is difficult even for people in the War Department to see the picture as a whole...