Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vince Di Maggio (batting average: .264), slick-haired, outfielding elder brother of peacetime Yankee Outfielder Sergeant Joe, vigorously ignored the $4.50-a-day meal ticket allowed to Pittsburgh Pirates on the road. In a single Philadelphia sitting he ate $9.97 worth, charged it to the club. Possessor of a priceless 4-F rating (for stomach ulcers), he dared the Pittsburgh management: "If you think I eat too much, trade...
...Separation. In 1919 the doughboy got the money due him and a railroad ticket home. What happened after that was his lookout. What happens after this war will also be his lookout but the Army is going to give him a better start. Last time, the jobless were back, demanding help. This time the Government hopes that it will not have to call out the cops to disperse "betrayed" veterans...
...Fort Sheridan, Ill., Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Presidio of Monterey, Calif.) There G.I. Joe will get a physical examination, and medical treatment if he needs it. Finally discharged, he will get the money owed him plus travel pay, with the advice to lose no time in buying his ticket...
...special political opinion conference at its offices last night, the Harvard Liberal Union voted almost unanimously to endorse the Democratic Presidential ticket--Roosevelt and Truman...
...retire. An oldster needs challenging (but not too heavy) work. "Idleness is [a] ticket to death...