Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back, and in tune with the times; he was jailed for a year for running a black market in sugar. When Manhattan's police tapped Worldwide's phones, they were not surprised to hear the enterprising Waxey telling a friend: "I'm now in a swell thing . . . buying Government surplus business...
...Japan. They raided us at this base last night and we dozed in slit trenches. Somebody mentioned the fact that today the Navy landed in Palau. A captain stopped to chat with me this morning. I asked him whether he'd heard the news about Palau. "Palau is swell." he said, "But, God, they've got to hurry - they've got to hurry...
...Texas contingent was enough to make any lone star swell with pride. Bob Hicks and John Justice agitated the roundup early in the evening--Bob with a hometown Temple date. All in all it was a memorable evening--from the first introduction to the noisy ride back. Nevertheless the boys have decided to have Mr. Hansen audit Rod's books...
This was the 21st time in the war that the President had been forced to seize a war-essential plant because of labor trouble. Strikes breaking out again in the coal fields of Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia seemed about to swell the list : with 33 mines already being operated by the Government, new walkouts last week left 30 mines and 12,000 miners idle and -presumably - waiting for the Army to come...
...When I got home Manhattan didn't seem real. The first few days it was swell. People fell all over me. Where you been? China. Tell us about it. I did. But they didn't want to hear what men have to endure. They wanted dime-novel stories of adventure. They didn't understand what I was trying to say. I couldn't get through to them. They hadn't seen it. It hadn't touched them...