Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny day last week, President Truman lolled on a Key West beach, chatting with Chief Justice Fred Vinson. A Navy blimp buzzed in low. Looking up, Harry Truman saw five White House press photographers taking pictures. He gave them a big wave and a grin...
...habit with Sell, who never finished Culver Military Academy but has succeeded at almost everything else he ever tried. He has been glove salesman, reporter, interior decorator, nightclub promoter and vitamin manufacturer. He turned out a slogan ("Have you been taking your vitamins?") that helped make vitamins big business, and wrote a book on home furnishings that sold 100,000 copies. He wears the Legion of Honor for promoting French fashions...
Last week, the first big U.S. experiment with the process got under way at the Alabama Power Co.'s Gorgas mine, 55 miles northwest of Birmingham. (A small-scale test at the same site two years ago gave promising but inconclusive results.) A thermite bomb was exploded 160 ft. below the surface, at the bottom of a borehole at the south end of the seam. Running northward through the coal for 1,200 ft. were two parallel entries (tapped by additional boreholes every 300 ft.) through which air could be driven under pressure...
...request of the Navy, which is responsible for many Pacific islands, the National Research Council sent Mollusk Expert Dr. Francis X. Williams to Africa to look for the big snail's enemies. In Kenya he found small, fierce, carnivorous snails boring into big achatinas with sharp, file-like teeth. He also found snail-eating beetles, and took both finds back to Hawaii, where they are still penned up carefully for observation. Some biologists fear that if the beetles and small snails exterminate the giant snails, they might look around for other food and become pests themselves...
...outside visitor, the most interesting class is that on Communism. Beneath a crucifix on the classroom wall hang two poster-size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...