Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa to America. 4) The Legation in Cairo had arranged for me to travel by Clipper in real luxury, but I canceled it as I could save this $1,500 or so for the Government. As a result I was in a bomb rack for twelve hours at a stretch, unable to talk and unable to look at anything but another bomb rack...
Could they finish their incredible task in time? It took hundreds of thousands of laborers two years to build the easier 330-mile stretch to Sichang. But necessity and good pay spurred these laborers; their bosses were the same Chinese geniuses who had created the Burma Road. Perhaps a hopeful Chinese spokesman had that fact in mind when he announced that Chiang Kai-shek in New Delhi had, among other feats (see p. 24), arranged a satisfactory war route from India to China...
...Oppenheim, author of 111 of the most popular novels ever written about international intrigue and espionage, got his diplomatic training in the wholesale leather trade. Unless this volume of his reminiscences is hiding state secrets, the nearest he ever came to the world he wrote about was a short stretch of propaganda writing for one of the British special services during World War I. The peculiar Oppenheim blend of dispatch-box atmosphere, femmes fatales, double traitors, and a tight plot totting up to eventual victory for the British Intelligence-most of it came out of Oppenheim's head...
...John B. Kelly has called golf and tennis essential to keep the nation fit. And since the U.S. is still adding-for the time being anyway-to its 650,000-ton rubber stock pile, sporting-goods manufacturers hoped they might be allowed some rubber after all-provided they can stretch...
...professors' wallets. The Faculty falls neatly into the bracket whose income taxes have taken the biggest proportional leap. Nevertheless, in order to keep the expenses of an extended 12 weeks operation from being too high to allow anything but a very superficial offering of courses, they have decided to stretch their present incomes rather than restrict the scope of the new Summer School...