Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returns showed 58% larger than 1939's; signed a bill providing $375,000,000 to continue WPA until July 1, subjected 16 more critical war materials to export license control; slashed by 55% the Army Engineers' $366,808,925 recommendations for 619 juicy rivers-&-harbors pork-barrel projects. Twice at press conferences he endeavored to quiet fears that labor strikes were now impeding or would soon impede defense progress...
...Freshmen the following year, who hand them down to the House teams, who throw them away. As the leaves begin to fall and the air becomes crisp, the House teams will charge into their plays with elbows protruding from their sleeves, and shoes fit only for the ash barrel...
...debate dragged on, Majority Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky calculated that the opposition would scrape barrel-bottom in a few days...
Lost Face. Japan was not long in getting reactions from this backdown. She had not only lost face diplomatically, but she had lost the military initiative. In Singapore thousands of Australian troops landed after a 3,000-mile trip. They sang Roll Out the Barrel, tossed pennies down on British dignitaries waiting to welcome them, cockily announced that they were "all set and fighting fit," then set out for northern Malaya. U. S.-made bombing planes reinforced the British Air Force at Singapore. New U. S. fighting planes were sent to the U. S. Fleet in Hawaii...
...Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans when Finn Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8 min., 58.2 sec. That was 16 years ago. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, barrel-chested, short-legged Gregory Rice, 25-year-old ex-Notre Damer, made mighty Nurmi's record look poky. Fitter-pattering around to the tune of Notre Dame's Victory March, Runner Rice whittled the two-mile world's record down to 8:53.4-nearly three seconds faster than the accepted world's record, indoors or out. "Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans...