Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started on the 26th of August when our P.O.W. camp of 509 British, Dutch and a few Americans in the center of Japan's Northern Island was visited by four torpedo bombers from the U.S.S.Hancock. . . . They bombed us with food, tobacco, candy, TIME and LIFE, in sailor's kitbags addressed "To the men we have not forgotten." . . . The amazing cordiality, informality and fantastic speed with which we were clothed, fed, deloused, bathed, injected, inoculated and whizzed down here by Liberators and air transports, on occasion with nurses, was an epic of dynamic friendliness finding a way through...
...dictator does not filch from the public treasury. That would be picking his own pocket. For Trujillo is the Dominican Republic. His personal monopolies include salt, tobacco, employe insurance, beer...
Billy Southworth had done a good job of pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He first took over the Cards in 1929, and Degan by putting his foot in his mouth. The first day he read a highhanded riot act to the club, and Veteran Chick Hafey whispered to tobacco-chewing Jim Bot-tomley, "Don't look now, but there's a hell on the job." Southworth got fired in midseason...
Divorced. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 48, wealthy, dapper, ex-playboy, wartime U.S. envoy to eight exiled governments in London, now on General Eisenhower's staff; by his second wife, Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, 48, mining heiress (his first wife was Mary Duke, tobacco heiress); after 14 years of marriage, no surviving children; in Paris...
Bread will no longer be rationed after Nov. 1. Cake is available again at the pâtisseries. Tobacco rations are up 50%-although the daily supply is still only five cigarets per smoker. Taxis are trickling back to the boulevards - although only holders of priority cards, such as expectant mothers and war invalids, may ride. The clothing supply is tight, particularly for men: next year there will be a new suit for every third Frenchman, an overcoat for every tenth. But soap is no longer sand-and-clay; it lathers...