Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd politicos left in Washington from Roosevelt days, this situation called for fast action. He had also handled the H.oly Land problem for F.D.R. Niles now urged Politician Truman to do something at once for the Jews. Bob Hannegan thought it was a fine idea. The President decided to act-even at the risk of international repercussions...
...grumble a bit and then accede. Both Jewish and Arab extremists must be ignored, for the plan is essentially one of compromise. But the most important element is speed. British soldiers are dying in Palestine and Jews are rotting in DP camps for lack of a solution. Britain must act quickly to carry out a clear-cut partition plan and the United States should examine their own immigration laws and decide whether or not increased immigration here would speed the settlement of refugees and bring the Palestine problem to a speedy and definite conclusion...
...Dirac is the genius who sensed the existence of the positron (positive electron) by figuring how a "hole" would behave if one should appear in a field of (negative) electrons. The hole, he decided, would act like a positive electron. Though no such particle had ever been found, colleagues began to look. Sure enough, they found the holes, as tangible as anything in basic physics, and named them "positrons...
Last week, the A.P. got into the act with a dispatch from a Jerusalem staffer: "The story was told in Palestine and Trans-Jordan bars and found its way into print. . . . The Gazelle Boys now number five. . . . One, the wags say, is being trained by oil companies to do a 50 m.p.h. pipeline patrol. Another . . . is being taught English by professors . . . at Beirut, so they can learn what the gazelles talk about besides love...
...friends got control of a utility empire stretching over 20 states and worth $1,119,000,000. There was only one big thing wrong: the depression had come-and with it the paper empire of USEPCO collapsed. With it Emanuel lost most of his personal fortune. The holding-company act, which was passed to put a stop to just such brobdignagian jiggery-pokery as USEPCO, put the headstone on V.E.'s empire. But Emanuel & friends salvaged something good from the wreck. They kept control of Standard Gas and its underwriting, profited on the issues until SEC stopped the practice...