Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military life, big (6 ft. 4 in.) McCormick, who still bears himself with parade-ground erectness, is as inelastic in ducal personal routines and crotchets as in his editing. As for years past he still rises regularly not later than 8:30, goes break-fastless to ride or tramp over his 800-acre estate at Wheaton, 45 minutes from Chicago. Having lost a blaring Tribune campaign to put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time the year round, he runs his estate on E.S.T. nevertheless. When his wife Amie, a capable portrait painter, died two years ago, the Colonel gave...
...insurance companies. Biggest single risk assumed to date was $7,000,000 on a ship which got through from the Far East to the U.S. Biggest single loss was $3,000,000 on a cargo of fine Mediterranean tobacco which went down with the Greek tramp Petalli when the Nazis bombed the Piraeus last spring. Last week the Exchange had $2,000,000 earmarked to cover a ship from the Far East, a month overdue and unreported...
...Maritime Commission's bigmouthed, ruddy-faced Captain Howard L. Vickery warned the shipowners that "this is our opportunity, and we may not have another, to plan. . . ." They liked one of his suggestions especially. "I told the British," he boomed, "we were going to take a crack at the tramp trade after the war." The proposed weapon: the U.S.'s new ugly ducklings...
...estimated 300 students, teachers, and trade union representatives will tramp the narrow safety island running up Huntington Avenue tonight bearing placards decrying the America First Committee's rally in Mechanics Hall...
...decade came the rattle of musketry in the Shanghai Incident (1932), the spit of rifle-fire in the Chaco (1932-35), the bursting of bombs in Ethiopian villages (1935-36), the volleys of firing squads in Spanish bull rings (1936-39), the screams of murdered Chinese civilians (1937-?), the tramp of Nazi boots through Austria (1938) and Czecho-Slovakia (1939), and at last the mounting crescendo of World...