Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People in America are, for the most part, poorly informed...
...Laurie and Auld Lang Syne; a neighing, galloping horse (Eddie Cantor was a wrong guess); cat yowls; a horn tootling. Columnists and rocking-chair dopesters were certain they had it. Some of the "sure things": Sir Harry Lauder, George Gallup, Mayor O'Dwyer, Jack Benny, Gene Tunney, All-America Fullback Doak Walker...
...Niebuhr was ordained in the Evangelical Synod of North America, a German Lutheran church now a part of the Evangelical and Reformed Church...
...money out (by making cars), K-F also had to cut the overall cost of producing them. By eliminating the night shifts, it hoped to reduce costs at the expense of total production. To ease the financial squeeze, K-F borrowed $10 million last week from the Bank of America...
...free time. But the years of loneliness and doubt had left a scar on Robinson's mind: failure remained his basic theme. Readers of this book may realize some of the suffering, the agony and the terrible consumption of human resources that go to make a poet in America...