Word: bedrock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with maddening deliberation, out of Russia. According to V. O. Fesenkov, chairman of the Meteorite Committee of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, a ""minor planet" landed on eastern Siberia last Feb. 12. The fragments of iron, nickel and cobalt were said to have smashed through the soil, penetrated the bedrock, and left several dozen craters-the biggest one 75 feet in diameter...
...labor legislation. While his onetime protege Joe Ball glowered at him across the table, Stassen declared that the closed-shop ban and other anti-labor provisions of Ball's four labor bills would give so much "excess power" to capital that labor would be back to the bedrock days of the 19203, and the U.S. economy with it. Stassen's key suggestion: a strike should be called only if authorized by a secret ballot taken after all negotiations had failed. Snapped Ohio's Taft:-"I see no objection to it, but as a solution of the labor...
Interior radioactivity as a cause for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is a possibility being explored by the research program of Harvard's Geophysical Laboratory, whose field experiments involve timed explosions over large bedrock areas...
...social position thereby accepted responsibility toward 'other men. Neither had he lost faith in the New England belief that a family or a community must care for its own. And after eleven years as president of the Greater Boston Community Fund, he illustrated the fact that these bedrock precepts of U.S. social philosophy were sound...
Even after whittling diets to a "bedrock" 1,500 daily calories, after stringently paring allocations of food to a subsistence minimum, Herbert Hoover conservatively figured that there still remained a "tragic gap" of 3,600,000 tons between world needs and world surpluses of exportable breadstuffs. This, said he, is "the whole amount necessary to save 40,000,000 people...