Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gregory Augustus Daymond, 20, a Montana-born commercial pilot who once flew in South Africa for an ice-cream king, bagged one. At short range he shot away a " 'schmitter's" aileron, and the plane lurched and floated down so awkwardly that Daymond "didn't wait to see what happened because I was quite satisfied I had got him." Four days later in a similar action Eagle
That request of George Marshall's drew no fire from legislators, for regulars swing no political cats. But his other requests produced plenty of fireworks from such lawmakers as Burton Wheeler, Hiram Johnson, Charles McNary. Best guess at week's end was that Congress would wait to hear what the public and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...solitary Japanese boy on the U.S. West Coast, to serve as houseboy, to hoe fields of Japanese truck gardeners, to wait on table, to be a hotel busboy, gave him a hard core under the candid and mannerly exterior; certainly it taught him that there was only himself to fend for himself...
Taxco's second break had to wait for the 19th Century when, under Porfirio Diaz, Mexico's industrialists reaped another silver harvest from Taxco. The Huerta, Villa and other revolutions put an end to the Porfiristas and Taxco took the count again until Bill Spratling blew...
...peacefully repairing Japan's failing trade with the U.S. and the whole South Pacific area. There were plenty of Japanese last week, in Government as well as elsewhere, who believed that Japan should either continue negotiations with The Netherlands East Indies or, at most, recall Commissioner Yoshizawa and wait for a better bargaining time...