Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loans" in hock to the U. S. taxpayer, who is paying $123,000 a day to keep it in out of the rain. If it were to be shared equally, every man, woman and child in the U. S. would have to go to the warehouses and carry away 43 Ibs. of cotton on his back...
...canny little ex-Socialist who controls U. A. W.'s huge West Side Local in Detroit, had fathered a plan to abolish dissension by abolishing four of the five vice-presidencies, leaving one for himself. Messrs. Murray & Hillman got the convention to adopt a more complete cure: do away entirely with vice presidents...
...such free souls may well be required to take root at a home address (presumably in jail, if they decline to settle elsewhere). He indorsed U. S. legislation and emergency aid which would consist principally of finding jobs for migrants already in California and warning others to stay away...
...they are useless, for the surrounding waters are a rocky, treacherous graveyard. Japan's real reason for the snatch was to get a good airplane and submarine base (the lagoons inside the reefs insure sheltered landing and mooring) within striking distance of dependencies of Britain (Singapore, 640 miles away; Sarawak, 350; Hong Kong, 1,000), France (Saigon, in French Indo-China, 300), The Netherlands (Borneo, 500), the U. S. (Manila, 700). From the little Spratly Islands, Japanese planes or submarines could attack any vessel in the China Sea, and get back again with plenty of fuel to spare...
...trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole span drooped a foot below its usual level...