Word: tags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Der Tag came, Metaxas let the Italians filter through mountain passes almost to loannina; then sent his Evzones, born mountaineers, trained in the manner of German Alpine troops, against them...
...that remained of Hog Island shipyard last week were a few tag ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...
When Infantryman Gerow reported to Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall for his new detail, the greeting was brief. General Marshall handed him a sheaf of papers to which was clipped the little red tag meaning "Urgent." Said Marshall, "You'd better go to work right...
...reach of the average man's pocket-book-many exhibitors got fancy ideas about value. In Manhattan's impoverished Harlem, at the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, asking prices ranged from $50 to $2,000. Painter F. G. Schoen of Jacksonville, Fla. pinned a tag for $10,000 on his picture of a Madonna and child. In Rochester another $10,000 Madonna was submitted by an Italian immigrant woman named Caroline Vara. Painter Vara's Madonna, which swooned biliously with unintentional surrealism over a macrocephalic child, was painted after a $175 correspondence course...
...Brainerd, Minn., Judge Rich-Ebert got a parking tag, was haled into his own court. His judgment: "You're fined. Don't let it happen again...