Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minded professor of a husband, a batch of noisy kids. Uncle Tom, according to the play, got written with the house all Topsy-turvy. In the midst of Harriet's fame, cooks fired up and gave notice, a son got wounded in the war his mother helped create, twin daughters set their hearts on the same young man and a third daughter...
Last week the Japs began trying to bomb Wau, and were stung for their pains. In the second largest single day's battle in the whole Australian theater, 37 U.S. Lightnings, Airacobras and Kittyhawks went up to meet 70 Japanese Zeros and twin-engined bombers. Not a single U.S. plane was shot down. The Japs lost 21 Zeros, three bombers and twelve more fighters; three more bombers were seriously damaged as to be considered "probables." Score...
Higher ranking politicos in the colonial setup, having democratic, pro-British leanings, were ousted and thrown into jail the moment the twin-pronged offensive got under way, the professor revealed. A similar expulsion occurred even before the campaign, when democratic leaders in the French colonial army and navy were taken from office as soon as the Vichy regime had been installed on the Continent...
Administration Strategy? The plain facts are that weekly and even hourly factory wages have risen faster than the cost of living. But such are the twin pressures on the Administration-which failed to face the inflation problem squarely in the early days of the war-that reasonable arguments have lost much of their force. The arguments now boil down to a simple demand: if "they" get something, "we" want something...
...last years of his life and much of his fortune angeling flying ventures. Aviation Bug Dickinson toyed with Northwest for a spell, lost so much money he turned it over to a group of Minneapolis-St. Paul-Chicago financiers. They did better: in 1927 Northwest had a prosperous Twin Cities-Chicago run, in 1928 spread to Winnipeg. Then Northwest picked up tough-minded, fast-moving Croil Hunter, a World War I artillery captain who went from traffic manager to president in five years...