Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurry-call trip from Chicago to Washington, Vice President Wallace N. Barker of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. could get a reservation only to Philadelphia, had to switch trains there. Pullman President David A. Crawford was a little luckier: he got an upper...
...head of the Women's Division of the Defense Savings Department awed her. Said she: "We are in the process of organizing and we are simply going to sell millions of bonds when we get started. I'm sure you realize that even the upper classes cannot do all of the work. A streetcar conductor's wife is sometimes as smart as a woman of my position. . . . Everybody will have a part in helping me with this tremendous...
Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...
...addition the College will admit men this February from those high schools which are included in the upper-seventh plan and which graduate students in the winter...
...number of men admitted under this arrangement will be necessarily small, however, since the upper-seventh plan is restricted to public high schools in the West, the South, and in certain rural districts in the East, and only a few of these schools permit students to finish their programs in the middle of the year...