Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Need. Hot in stiff Sunday dresses or galluses, the farmers clapped for their guest of honor: Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. We have much to be thankful for in the year that is ending, said Claude Wickard-for brave allies, for the year's good weather, for success in the battle for food. But there were many troubles ahead: more work, less machinery, less fertilizer, less help...
Where Was the R.A.F.? Admiral Hart is against a separated air force. He points to the poor British record of employing planes with ships, cries: "The only thing that would have saved Singapore would have been the success of Admiral Sir Tom Phillips' attempt to place his heavy ships where they could sink the Japanese transports at sea. We have never heard why the R.A.F. fighters, which were half an hour away, gave Admiral Phillips no help whatever" (when H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse were sunk...
...months they officially destroyed 732* planes, though the unofficial count was higher. They had earned twelve Distinguished Flying Crosses, one Distinguished Service Order. As spectacular as their success was their insouciance...
...swap a $25,000 bond for a kiss. Pert Frances Dee sold an embroidered negligee for $5,000 in Little Rock, Ark.; Greer Garson persuaded the 23,000 men, women and children in Bluefield, W.Va. to ante $450,000 in a single day. Beamed Treasury Secretary Morgenthau: "An outstanding success...
...this success John Wayne and Paul Kelly are chiefly responsible. Kelly, and some of the other members of the squadron, play their parts manfully, for all they are worth. John Wayne is a rudimentary actor, but he has the look and bearing, unusual in his trade, of a capable human male. As the squadron commander, he is able to make his habitual inarticulateness suggest the uncommunicative competence that men expect in their leaders. Anna Lee, after three sleepless nights, is still able to suggest a Beautyrest. Too many Japanese pilots get the same wound, by which they bleed photogenically...