Word: fiances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bring wives or fianc...
...back, and Hubert, who had shown little interest in girls, had met a brunette named Muriel Buck, the daughter of a produce and feed dealer whose business had gone to dust. Hubert took a bus trip to Washington, and wrote a letter back to his fianc...
...cheaper, easier or surer way of entering the U.S. than just following the path of love & marriage. If an American G.I. married a foreigner the U.S. not only admitted her, but paid her passage as well. The wives of ex-G.I.s were also welcome. So were their fiancées-although, according to law, unmarried girls were hustled right back home if they didn't get their men to the altar in go days...
Operation Crow. In December-the last month for unrestricted immigration of war brides and war fiancées-migration became a flood. The U.S. organized a special airlift (incongruously named Operation Crow) to bring Europeans across the Atlantic. Chartered planes flew others across the Pacific...
...Siren of Slutsk. It reminded the editors of another, similar case: that of Galina Dubrovina, of the town of Slutsk in western Belorussia. Miss Dubrovina had actually kept a notebook with a special page entitled "My Fiancés." There she had scored nine young fellows under four headings: "Job-Salary-Year of Birth-Home Address...