Word: barse
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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But destroyermen did not grieve long for the lost 50; they went discreetly, quietly after more. Last week-as Washington's bars began to buzz with the rumor that Britain might get more old destroyers -Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that contracts had been let for 40...
Every Japanese has been limited to one cotton towel a year. Foreign news films have disappeared from the theatres. There is strict rationing of gauze, absorbent cotton, condensed and powdered milk. Picture post cards or magazine pictures of Imperial and military buildings, factories, other landmarks, have been prohibited. Geisha girls...
By last week 20 of the pioneers had formed a syndicate, prepared to stake out their claims in Mexico City. Their proposal: if Avila Camacho would undo some liberal reforms of his great & good friend ex-President Cardenas, they would give chicle-growing Mexico $100,000,000 to chew on...
Ability to label a pistol as a gun proved helpful for buck privates who wanted to gain chevrons, but was only a first step. Draftees now go directly from reception centres to tactical units which are below war strength. But after next March, they will spend 14 weeks at replacement...
> Taking up the cue, The Bronx Zoo opened an exhibition of animal paintings by Joel Stolper, who for the past 15 years has been peering behind the bars of cages, writing and illustrating books on giraffes and other animals. Ex-Prize Fighter Stolper, who fought all over the U. S...