Word: torches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five minutes later John Gudgel and Dick Johnston were sipping martinis hurriedly in a desperate effort to forget what they had just seen: no bluejacket batting out code to the fleet, but rather, a welder and his torch sealing the seams in two steel plates...
...described roadhouse ("Around a corner an arch of stout knotty pine opened into a big living room lit from skulls of longhorn cattle with electric bulbs in them set in a row round the varnished log walls"), Crawford is seen at play in blue-striped pajamas with a statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue : "Ah, there was the unkindest...
Northwest did a bang-up job. Even veteran Army flyers like to talk about how the line set up a complete route to Alaska, carried standout cargoes like: 1) a complete sawmill for Alaska Highway use; 2) an oversized six-wheel truck which was cut up by torch, crammed into the plane, put together at the destination by six welders who flew along...
Chicago Daily News's alert, emotional Leland Stowe had the first. Last summer Correspondent Stowe won the Kremlin's gratitude by carrying a torch for aid to Russia. He was rewarded by a journalistic triumph-permission to visit the Rhzev front, west of Moscow...
...Composers celebrated its 20th birthday last week with a concert in Manhattan's Town Hall. No crowd clamored to buy standing room. But to many musicians it was an important event. For 20 years the league had been almost the only hand to uphold the frequently flickering torch of contemporary high-brow music...