Word: holds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commissioner Pugmire goes to the office with him two or three mornings a week. As is the army rule, she holds the same rank as her husband. Their five children are all married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them...
Pocahontas is going into a competing business, said Alexander, because "our customers are thoroughly disgusted with interruptions year after year because of [John L.] Lewis' attitude. We are going into oil where oil is available in order to hold on to our business...
Coalmen everywhere were finding business harder & harder to hold on to. This was due to: 1) Lewis, whom coalmen call "the best oil salesman in the country"; 2) the greater efficiencies and cleanliness of oil and natural gas; 3) the rise in coal prices and drop in oil prices, which has put oil on a competitive footing with coal. On the East Coast alone switchovers from coal to oil have cut this year's coal sales at least 20% below...
During its four months on Guadalcanal the division was almost written off several times. When asked whether the hard-pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or afloat, will give a good account of himself." When this word came to Guadalcanal one sergeant mused: "Ya know, they're kicking up a stink about us back in the States." Said a private first class: "That's nice...
...came and so did the best thing that ever happened to the division: a long rest in Australia, where people get false teeth early. Australian girls couldn't believe the marines' molars were their own. "Finally, this babe with me reached over," said one marine, "and took hold of my teeth and tried to yank 'em and I let her. She was sure surprised when nothing gave." Before the division left Melbourne most of the men "were in some stage of a serious love affair with an Australian girl...