Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a-fixing for two days. Little Moultrie (pop. 10,147) was packed with yellow school buses, highway-patrol cars, the sedans of Talmadge's "Palace Guard" at the State Capitol. There was even a bus labeled UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA STUDENTS FOR TALMADGE -though when the passengers stuck their heads out for a photographer only two seemed to be under...
Later, at the dead center of the stifling Libyan desert, he learned that a single can of beer can be worth its weight in gold. Reynolds' hard, racy report of what it is like to be stuck in the middle of one of General Rommel's blitzes is the best piece of reporting in the book. Almost as good is his dithyramb on Russia...
...July 1 AMA will be stuck with a billion cans-with no place to send them and no way yet approved to keep 40,000,000 more cans from pouring into its warehouses week in & week...
Inability to predict such behavior, plane builders have claimed, has long made them wary of stainless steel, which for aviation purposes must often be used in sheets as thin as .004 in. So they have stuck to aluminum, whose behavior under flight conditions is tried & tested...
Last week R.K.O. had a new alumnus: its president, George Schaefer. ex-general manager of United Artists, ex-sales vice president of Paramount, resigned. Mr. Schaefer was pushed into R.K.O. in 1938 by Rockefeller Center (alias Nelson Rockefeller) and R.C.A. (alias David Sarnoff), which were both stuck with large R.K.O. holdings. The choice of a salesman to lick production and financial problems roused grave misgivings in Floyd Odium, whose Atlas Corp. was up to its ears in R.K.O. stock too, and Mr. Odium turned out to be right: the studio mess at R.K.O. was too much for able Salesman Schaefer...