Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Five days after Franklin Roosevelt returned to his desk, the German Foreign Office intimated that continued peace between the Reich and the U. S. hung in the balance. A Nazi spokesman complained of U. S. "pinpricks." A warning to the U. S. came from the Rome press. The Axis, having for months ignored not only U. S. aid to Britain but the whole U. S. defense program designed to thwart its plans for world domination, had decided to try talking tough...
Donn Casey, from Australia, cracked at his sister: "Jane's scared but I'm not." A barely audible "I'm not either" came over the air. Said Donn: "We send our love to you and to the boys and girls in Australia and to our Granny in Melbourne, Australia, who is listening for us. Hello, Granny-lots and lots of love from us and [Jane and Donn shouted together] a GREAT big kiss." Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Pirie, of the British Embassy, said solemnly: "To my young fellow countrymen in Great Britain...
According to investigators, money came & came. Upwards of $200,000 in "fellowship certificates" to Peace Haven were sold at $100 apiece. No contribution was despised, no matter how minute. For those who could not plunk down $100, a deferred-payment plan was provided: $10 down, installments of 5?. Incidental "love offerings" of $5 to $6 were gratefully received. Boys & girls belonged to "Cosmic Network, Inc.," contributed 1? stamps. Into "Secret Givers, Inc." (for men only; emblem: a stork carrying a baby) members paid from 50? to $1 a month...
...young man dropped a coin in the turnstile, walked out on to the platform. But instead of boarding a train, he stood there and watched while three other people came through the turnstile after him. Then he looked hastily around, darted to the turnstile, put his lips to the coin slot, sucked. At this point the amazed Mr. Milli bounded out of hiding and grabbed him. In the young man's mouth. Milli later declared, was a nickel...
...cities along the Gulf. But through all Texas' titanic changes, the 1,500 miles of wire fence still surrounded the fiat coastal plains and brush land of the King and Kenedy ranches. The Hug-the-Coast Highway from Houston through Corpus Christi cut straight across country-until it came to the fence at the Kenedy County line. Then it detoured 23 miles west, 46 miles south. 23 east again before it could go on. For 20 years citizens beefed to the Legislature, but Kenedy County remained closed to highway builders. In 1936, somewhere inside the King Ranch...