Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Listen, Judge. In Chicago, a Texas badman, Taylor N. Whichard, told the judge that if all charges against him were dropped, he would personally rub out Adolf Hitler. The judge, unmoved, gave him nine years...
Have we the ships? Aye, there's the rub. Well, we had ships to take 950,000 men to the Middle East, ships to capture Madagascar, ships to take huge convoys to India, ships to transport supplies to Russia, ships to save an army from Dunkirk, ships to keep this nation the best fed in Europe. Ships do not lie idle. They must be employed according to a rigid rule of priority. Suppose the Second Front became Number 1 priority. Perhaps then the greatest seafaring nation the world has ever seen would be unable to find the ships...
...means of protest, the Congress Committee recommended that Indians refuse to yield property under wartime requisition until the British Government pays in full. And, once again, Gandhi proposed to rub salt into the wound of British-Indian relations. The committee urged that Indians violate the Government salt monopoly by making their own salt. In 1930 Britain jailed Gandhi for leading 79 disciples on a 200-mile "Salt March...
...reach 185,000 combat aircraft. Even if half of that is lent-leased, the Army and the Navy between them will still have 92,500 combat planes. Army schools will graduate something less than 30,000 pilots this year, must step up their training pace next year. The rub: in the tension of long flights and in the electric strain of combat, pilots tire. Flight surgeons ground them, make them rest. But planes don't get tired. Back from a mission, refueled, rearmed, a plane is ready to fly again. Consequently, every plane needs one or more replacement crews...
...over the U.S. last week Boy Scouts were on the march-not across hills and through woods, but over pavements and alleys. No longer do they search for sticks to rub together to start camp fires. Now they hunt trash conveyances-trash to collect. They are Public Scavenger Service...