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Veronica Lake, her temper a shade frayed by a thumb broken at a Chicago bond rally, engaged in a shouting contest with a Boston gallery that heckled her soft-spoken plea for the Fifth War Loan. Said she of the extra-long bob: "Who are you? bobby soxers?" Said they: "No!" Said she: "Well, who do you think you're listening to, Frank Sinatra?" A happy ending to the squabble came with the purchase of a $100,000 bond which included the privilege of having Veronica wash dishes at Mayor Maurice Tobin's luncheon...
...Cherbourg - major port on the tip of Cotentin (or Norman) peninsula sticking north like a thumb toward Britain, 80 miles across the Channel. It is heavily fortified and protected by the German-held Channel Islands. Beaches on both sides of the peninsula are limited by high cliffs...
...came to the U.S. at the age of four. As a youth he worked as a patternmaker in his father's stove shop in Detroit, caught the eye of Henry Ford by turning out patterns no one else seemed able to make. He showed the same rule-of-thumb genius when he went to work for Ford, translating Ford's production ideas into complex patterns of men & machines spilling out cars. When Ford dreamed of an activated production line, Sorensen tied a rope to a chassis, pulled it through the plant to see how the idea would work...
Unferocious. During Prohibition, Lane became the Daily News gangster specialist. He was creating an Oxie technique then. He snickered at the gangsters by inventing unferocious nicknames for them: "Greasy Thumb" Gusik, "Loudmouth" Levine, "Violet" Fusco. (Fusco's pals thereafter sent him bunches of violets...
...highly organized mobile anti-aircraft artillery. The three raids: Nov. 3, Düsseldorf & Cologne; Nov. 18, Berlin & Ludwigshafen; Nov. 26, Berlin & Stuttgart. On these three and the Berlin attack Nov. 22, the R.A.F. lugged about 2,000 tons of bombs per night. An R.A.F. rule of thumb: one raid of 2,000 tons requires a month's organization work by 18,500 men, destroys as much as 75,000 Nazis can produce in a month...