Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that looks like two beer barrels, end to end. The U.S. Navy calls it the greatest sea fighter in the world. The Japs respect it above all other planes. Wherever the Hellcats have roved in the skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes in 25 seconds, sent three more spinning...
...antitrust laws have long forbidden the formation in the U.S. of business associations which restrain trade. But the Webb-Pomerene Law, 1918, permitted the formation of export associations provided they do not restrain trade...
Herbert George Wells, 77, is still fighting the whole world-especially the middle class from whose lower levels he came. In London last week he published 42 to 44, 205 pages of miniature battle, thrusting and cutting at practically everybody in creation except the late voluminous, statistical humanitarian Beatrice Webb (of the socialist tandem: Beatrice and Sidney Webb...
...Beatrice Webb. "She went down to the poor as the saints do; I come up from the poor in a state of flaming rebellion, most blasphemous and unsaintly. Beatrice wanted to socialize the ruling classes and make them do their duty. I wanted to destroy them. Now they are destroying themselves...
Married. Army Captain Quentin Roosevelt, 24, youngest son of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; and American Red Cross Worker Frances Webb, 26, of Kansas City and Smith College ('38); in Blandford, England. Butterfly-Collector Roosevelt collected the Silver Star and a shell fragment with the field artillery in North Africa. His best man: his father...