Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Stern cannot hope to defend his whole line. Instead he has a string of strong points, some to be held against the Japanese. Thus, if & when the new war between Russia and Japan begins, it will be one of great initial advances for the Japs, hard & fast counterblows for the Russians...
Buddy Rosar was the envy of every catcher in the big leagues. Substituting as first-string backstop for the world-champion New York Yankees while Bill Dickey nursed a bad shoulder, Rosar was behind baseball's No. 1 plate-with $5,000 of World Series swag practically in his mitt. But Buddy, a law-abiding boy, had always wanted to be a cop in Buffalo, N.Y., his hometown. Last fortnight, on the eve of a doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox, Buddy Rosar shuffled off to Buffalo, where he took examinations for the police force (and where, also...
...sober recognition on everyone's part that 1) the rubber situation was so dire as to threaten the war effort itself; 2) the raw materials situation as a whole (particularly in steel) was so dire that the rubber program had to be frozen, and on a strictly string-saving basis at that...
...waved his arm in the dark room, impatiently stabbing for the light string. There wasn't a sound in the building, except for the contented hum of the refrigerator that posed in the blackness, two feet in front of him. His hand brushed the string. He grasped it and pulled; then painlessly extracted another beer from the refrigerator, pulled the string again and returned to the large, black leather couch in the sanctum. The night was hot and quiet and the beer cold and satisfying. A blue magnesium light on Plympton Street flickered white, then changed back to blue with...
...would be charged on a sliding scale, varying with the actual size of the listening audience. Under such a system, networks could offer a balanced bill of fare, and they could find sponsors (at lower rates) for programs with restricted audiences, such as the Toscanini concerts and the Budapest String Quartet...