Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week received $500,000,000 additional lending capital when President Roosevelt signed a bill designed to enable South American countries to build up their own industries, including armaments for hemisphere defense. When it's raining dollars, any banker, even an aristocrat like Pinedo, instinctively will turn his umbrella upside down...
...bombs killed some of the curious. Down Piccadilly one afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
...greater part of its history the U. S. has lived under the umbrella of protection provided by the British Fleet. Until World War I the U. S. never attempted to claim naval parity and by that time was thoroughly satisfied with a century-old tacit understanding which made the two fleets not rivals but complements of each other...
...Umbrella ribs provided with blunt tips, to protect eyes...
...BROKEN FACE MURDERS-Darwin & Hildegarde Teilhet - Crime Club ($2). The Baron von Kaz and his miraculous green umbrella are back, this time with a bride. Before the honeymoon in California's hills can get properly started, the honeymoon cottage becomes a shambles. Both the Baron and the reader get a good run for their money...