Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eberstadt was fired, but his CMP stuck as basic WPB policy, and Charlie Wilson subsequently had the courage to praise its merits...
Russian military observers offered him $10,000 a year to go to Russia as military adviser and pursuit instructor. He turned the offer down, stuck with Billy Mitchell and a few other pioneers through years of frustration and discouragement...
...more than 20 years tough old Nettie Thompson, a revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
Sugar & Spice. Last year, still stuck with its anachronistic fixed charges, M. & St. L. once again turned in a whopping bookkeeping deficit. But this year, war boomed it into a profit even before the reorganization officially cut its debt to $2,015,000, and the road proudly turned down a $4,000,000 RFC loan because it had enough cash of its own. For the first eight months of 1943, M. & St. L., no longer limping, earned over $2,000,000-enough sugar & spice to pay its new small fixed charges more than 20 times over...
When the Japs pushed out vigorous counter patrols, the Marines chose the trees that would be most tempting to Jap snipers. In the bark, the Marines stuck razor blades. As anticipated, the moment the Japs hit, the sniper squads started up the trees. Then they began dropping "in most outraged surprise." While still staring at their hands, they were picked...