Word: swellings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oscar made for himself, with the inscription: "In honor of Nunnally Johnson [astute producer and Hempstead crony] and David Hempstead, who are exactly 22½ years ahead of their time." Says he: "Oscar is to remind me I'm good; the derby hat to keep me from getting swell-headed about...
...would be as wide and effective as the break which put Donald Nelson in charge of war production at home. By superseding the host of obscure agencies and purchasing commissions which have been handling aid to the Allies, the President's three new boards may be able to swell Lend-Lease to a torrent, send it roaring down to engulf the Axis...
...notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that OCD workers in Washington did not get enough recreation, she got hold of a portable phonograph, at lunch hours led 40 or 50 workers up to the roof to dance Virginia Reels. "Her intentions," said one admirer, "were swell." The First Lady typified the earnestness and confusion with which U.S. women have stampeded to defense work since Dec. 7. By last week hundreds of thousands of them were madly sewing, knitting, cooking, dancing, driving automobiles, thundering in airplanes, jumping into fire nets...
...Yeah, swell, thanks." Or had it been? The Vagabond plowed on through the snow, clean because it was almost as newly-arrived in Cambridge as Vag was. On December 17 he had taken the train for New York, two days early, looking forward to the usual gay, and liquid round. But it hadn't been the same; the old gang wasn't there and every girl Vag met knew some neat guy fighting in the Pacific, which made him feel sharply his own unheroic role. Maybe he ought to join the air corps right away and get sent...
...British Empire has over 500,000 workers employed producing gold; the U.S. has 55,000. Between them they swell the buried treasure at Fort Knox by around 1,000 tons a year. To Britain this now means some $700,000,000 a year in dollar exchange. Gold production, thanks to U.S. gold-buying policy, is one of her chief sources of dollars; and Britain still needs dollars, despite Lend-Lease...