Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four high-school-age boys hopped into a jalopy and set off up broad North Avenue. Soon they sighted an older friend driving another car and began to play. Weaving around, they managed to bump their friend's car twice-and caromed into a tree. All four boys were killed...
...Sugar rationing in ¾-lb. units has refiners up a tree. Their machinery is designed for a 2-lb. package; none that will pack ¾ Ib. is available...
...meantime Nelson continued to knock the frosting off the U.S. economy. He stopped production of Christmas-tree and advertising-light bulbs, of brass eyelets for shoes, ordered a 50% cut in tin cans for beer, coffee, tobacco, oil, dog food. As its first move into international problems, WPB allocated 4% of rayon production to Latin America...
...Bataan the dust is thick. It fills the eyes and throat. Men and officers along the way all like to talk. The big item is guessing when help will come. Nailed to a tree in one headquarters was a big calendar with a picture of a full-rigged sailing ship. Under it someone had written sardonically: 'We told you so, help...
Like Hong Kong and Manila before it, Singapore awaited its fate. Its tree-covered oval island, 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, is separated from the giraffe-like neck of the Malay Peninsula and the oncoming Jap by the mile-wide Strait of Johore. Around the big island on the sea side are scores of tiny islands, on most of which lie camouflaged coastal artillery positions...