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The biggest force yet of four-motored British bombers dropped nearly 1500 tons of explosives on the German coal and steel center of Dortmund last night, according to a statement from the Royal Air Force. The tonnage dropped on the Dortmund hub of the Nazi war machine was "not very short" of that amount dropped on Cologne during a 1000-plane raid last May 30. The raid cost the RAF 30 bombers, and followed by a few hours a powerful attack by American planes on Nazi industrial targets at Antwerp.
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It really is quite amazing that, under this type of onslaught, which almost never let up, German industry was able to produce enough to keep the Germans fighting for two more years.
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Officials of the Sperry Gyroscope Company denied today that an employee at the company's Bush Terminal plant was required to quit her job in order to attend the christening of a ship named after her grandfather. Mrs. Polly Conohan Hinkamp claimed that the company refused to allow her time off from her position as an inspector in order to attend the christening of the new destroyer Conohan at the Bethlehem Steel Company's yard at Staten Island, so she quit. Sperry personnel official J. A. Fitz denied that claim, stating that Mrs. Hinkamp resigned last Friday because, she said, she was going to join her husband, Lt. Maddox Nelson Pieter Hinakamp of the Navy. Mr. Fitz noted that he has verification of this statement from two department heads, and added that "if she had asked for a night off we would have been glad to grant it under the circumstances.")
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Somebody is not telling the truth. Joe, what have you heard about this?
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("HEY!" yells Sally into a payphone while she waits for her train at the H&M Hudson Terminal. "Yeah! TELL'AT RICKEY PETEY WOULDA MADE T'AT PLAY!")
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Really, Sally, you have time for this?
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(Y'know, Tallu, you really should wear a longer slip. Kinda misses the purpose to wear one that short.)
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We've talked a lot about how stockings have all but disappeared over the past thirty years, but the slip, too, has seen a large decline in use (not quite as large a decline as stockings, though). Women use to worry about their silhouette or more showing through a thin garment, but now that just seems to be part of the game.
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(Wait, secret operatives can take private fees? WHAT KIND OF RACKET IS THIS?)
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His savings from those fees is the only thing holding Irwin over until he can find a new gig. It really does appear that Irwin is out and Mike and her cow eyes are in.
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(Poor kitty. *snif*)
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"I should worry about mice getting into the house."
So the cat is an early 1900s lower-east-side Jewish immigrant mother.
And in the Daily News...
This was horrific the first time we read about it, and the details make it even more so.
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The details are sickening. These guys are entitled to their day in court, but unless the story somehow changes (and I seriously doubt it will), I hope they throw the book at them. I don't care about how young they are or how tough their upbringing was, just like they didn't care about how young Ms. O'Brien is or how tough her upbringing was.
After the war, George will take over Nick's gang.
"I've been out West establishing my business interests there, as things were getting a bit hot on the East Coast. But I keep an eye on the East Coast and, agree, George could be a good family head, umm, manager for the organization, umm, business. Also, after the war, I'd like to get that Kid and her silly dog out here."
"'Silly?'"
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The one thing I think we can be certain of is that Bim does not, in fact, understand.
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No kidding. Min is the only one in the Gump universe who understands anything and even she's had her reasoning capabilities distorted but the gravitational pull of the insane Gump men.
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