Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...British said only a few of their 400-odd air bases were shut down at any time, and none was abandoned...
...morning when a British coastal convoy of 18 ships, strung out for a mile and guarded by destroyers, steamed under the tall chalk cliffs of Dover, a series of four bright flashes, closely spaced, followed by heavy smoke puffs, were seen on the French Coast, 20-odd miles away. About 80 seconds later four geysers spouted in the Channel near the convoy, accompanied by the crashing roar of four big shells exploding. At last the Germans were trying out their threat to "command the Channel with coast artillery...
...thousands of bedspreads for sale. In city department stores this year some $12,000,000 worth of bedspreads, 75% of them from Dalton, will sell at an average retail price of $5. Last week 1,000 girls (many of them from ex-tufting mountain families) flocked into the 50-odd Dalton spread factories, signing on in preparation for the fall production rush. By mid-September there will be 7,000 of them hard at work at the machines...
...Oxford), died last February in his 66th year, his fifth as Governor General of Canada, he had already finished the autobiography his career made inevitable. This provision was of a piece with the career-workmanlike, ordered, conscientious, religiously dutiful -which the last of John Buchan's 50-odd books records...
...Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission) "for sacrificing the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway on the altar of Burlington front-office convenience." The "Burlington Boys," he roared, had put the "snatch" on the road to bolster deficit-ridden C. & S., were cold to the fact that 190-odd Fort Worthians would lose their jobs by removal of the offices to Denver. He even suggested that Texas, whose railroad taxes were 50% lower than Colorado's, might well up F. W. & D. C.'s tax bill to the point where the anticipated operations saving would disappear...