Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Norman Hezekiah Davis, 65, national chairman of the American Red Cross, onetime U.S. Ambassador-at-Large; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hot Springs, Va. At 39, he had made $1,000,000 in Cuban banking and Cuban sugar, retired to devote himself to public service. His financial, diplomatic and organizational talents were enlisted by four Presidents. Of him fellow-Tennessean Cordell Hull said: "Few persons have had the privilege of rendering to their country and to other countries such a full measure of useful service...
...dawn on D-day Saipan looked like a low-lying prehistoric monster whose high, rising spine was Mt. Tapotchau. Already the sugar-mill town of Charan Kanoa was afire or smoking at several points and there was some smoke rising from Garapan from the bombing and shelling of the previous two days. At 5:45 the big guns began-gunfire from 5-inch destroyer to 16-inch battleship shells. Tinian Island, five miles south of Saipan, got its share of shells against artillery emplacements and other targets...
...kind of terrified probity among underlings, but it has one flaw: in practice, it does not apply to Ubico. On becoming President, he declared himself worth $89,000. Now he owns 75,000 acres, is the largest individual landholder in Guatemala. Much of his property is valuable coffee and sugar land. He lists his acquisitions under the Ley de Probidad at ludicrous valuations. No one dares to challenge his figures...
...couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that he had accepted a bad check drawn...
...correspondents were annoyed when they had to pay $1.13 for two boiled eggs and a cup of weak tea at the Hotel Majestic (they would have paid as much or more in comparable restaurants at home). Thousands upon thousands of Romans and refugees went hungry. Roman housewives could find sugar at $10 a lb., string beans at $5.50 a lb., rice at $5 a lb. Their husbands probably had not worked for months. Until the Nazis left, able-bodied male Italians had been afraid to walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich...