Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Custodian Ickes. The nation, lathered into a rage, waited, not very patiently, for action from Washington. Bluff Harold Ickes, Solid Fuels Coordinator, custodian of all the mines, now John Lewis' last hope, stuck to his desk, plotting his course. His orders were to get coal mined, and he didn't much care how. On Franklin Roosevelt's desk still lay the Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike bill (he had until June...
Stubborn, proud, prejudiced, Kaltenborn nevertheless has stuck to the tradition of free speech and made it stick. More powerful pressure groups have tried to run him off the air than have attacked any other commentator. He has beaten all of them, including America First, which had his sponsor (Purol) on the ropes with their anti-interventionist mail. He has insisted on saying what he wanted to, and his audience (about 10,000,000) has forgiven his mistakes and gone on listening. His long-range batting average is pretty good...
...entire crew. From the control tower of the field, later on, he watched Colin Kelly die. Kurtz heard a plane coming in, looked up at the low-hanging clouds. Eight parachutes dropped from them; then he saw "a dark object go hurtling into the ground." That was Kelly, who stuck with the ship until it was too late for his own chute to open...
...billets doux--are the major excitement. From the little that has been bruited about, the West-coasters are condemning the Navy as a system for reducing the population of the state of California and the East-coasters are dreading assignment to dry-dock. But new pins will be stuck in the map in the cabin of the good ship Briggs by the time this paper goes to press. The beans (and the tears) will be spilled after the third disbursers vs. suppliers softball game scheduled for June 2. The winning team, and according to previous scores it should...
...them (3,200,000) were battery-operated, and the supply of new batteries was slim. Farmers, who depend upon the radio for most of their world news and market reports, were also being cut off from weather bulletins, the latest Government regulations, other special services. City dwellers were stuck for repair parts, especially tubes, and repair...