Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When the yelling had quieted down, Truman had beaten Stark by 8,000 votes, with Milligan a poor third, and Missouri voters found to their dismay that, in a year when Louisiana had kicked out the remnants of the Huey Long machine, they had voted to restore Pendergastery. Old Tom Pendergast was out of Leavenworth on probation, and under the lee of Mayor Bernard Dickmann's St. Louis machine the Pendergasters in Kansas City could now mend their battered breeches. No one believed that Republican Candidate Manuel A. Davis would be strong enough to beat Truman in November...
...battleships, six aircraft carriers, 37 cruisers, 237 destroyers, 102 submarines, 1,300-odd useful combat airplanes. Great Britain at last reports had a little less tonnage (1,253,744) and 336 warships, was far behind the U. S. in submarines (56) and destroyers (192).* The world's third sea power, Japan, has afloat 241 combat vessels (tonnage: 961,326). Japan, Italy, Germany-the combination which the U. S. must now think about when measuring sea power-had in service only 409,323 tons more than...
...days afterwards German planes ranged widely over the British Isles on scattered raids in small formations. They said they smashed the runway at the Bristol airport, the Pobjoy airplane-engine works at Rochester, an explosives factory at Faversham, docks and shipyards at Newcastle, Sheerness, Chatham. On the third day they staged another big show, beginning at 7:30 a.m., on Dover's repaired balloon barrage...
From the land that was once Ethiopia and is now part of Italian East Africa, Italy up to last week had launched two drives into British colonies-one southward into Kenya, the other westward into the Sudan. Neither had got very far last week when Italy launched a third-into British Somaliland...
...girls "had surprisingly short and easy labors," ranging from averages of 14 to 18½ hours. More than one-third delivered their babies in less than twelve hours - "a remarkable record" for first births, which seldom take less than 18 hours. "All the mothers made a good recovery...