Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant young Dubos went to work on a fantastic idea which, like many great ideas, was almost laughably simple: Why not feed disease germs to soil micro-organisms and see which species thrived on the diet...
...priced car by next spring to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. The second loan was to permit K-F to finance its dealers' purchases of cars from the factory, because K-F dealers had trouble getting loans from private banks. All told, RFC has loaned K-F almost as much as the company raised in stock sales...
Overhanging concrete canopies protect workmen from the hot Texas sun and occasional rainstorms, while low railings keep them from walking off a floor. Because of better design and more mechanization, the plant operates with only 250 production employees compared to almost 500 in an old-fashioned refining plant with the same capacity...
Divorced. William Veeck (rhymes with wreck), 35, canny Barnum of baseball, president of the Cleveland Indians since 1946; by Eleanor Raymond Veeck, thirtyish, onetime Ringling Bros, circus equestrienne; after almost 14 years of marriage, three children; in Tucson, Ariz...
...rose from millhand to cabinet rank (Lord Privy Seal, 1924; Home Secretary, 1929-31) in his country's first two Labor governments (he was the first to introduce rationing, in 1918); in London. In virtual obscurity by 1947, Clynes was forced to admit publicly that he was almost destitute...