Word: threedays
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...Took a threeday, Potomac rest cruise on the White House yacht Williamsburg -a consolation prize for the Florida visit with Winston Churchill which he had to miss because of the steel crisis...
...always anticipates (and frequently overanticipates) good or bad news. Last week, when Italy finally threw in the towel, the market took the good news in traditional style: it went down. But the drop, two-thirds of a point on the Dow-Jones industrial average, was picayune compared to the threeday, 6½-point nose dive that followed the fall of Mussolini last July, and was more than made up in the next day's trading...
...Correspondent Francis McCarthy's warning reflected the mood and condition of everyone on Guadalcanal, fighting men and correspondents alike. The 31-year-old, Manila-born U.P. man had survived several attacks of dysentery, a half dozen assorted tropical complaints, a broken rib. But a final threeday, all-out Jap assault did him in. He was removed to safety, together with most of the remaining Guadalcanal correspondents and the cameraman...
Hoarse with a cold and not a little angry, Winston Churchill flatly refused last week to debate the many Parliamentary critics of Britain's war conduct. He promised a threeday, full-dress debate this week, added testily: "I propose myself to open the debate and if necessary to wind...
...Under challenged a new generation of U. S. Davis Cuppers in a war-clouded spectacle that promised to be as dramatic as the one 25 years ago. In the stands at the Merion Cricket Club at Haverford, Pa., grave-faced tennis fans gathered for the opening matches of the threeday, best-of-five series, wondered if this was to be the last Davis Cup contest they would ever see. German troops were already slogging through Poland, another World War was only a few hours away...