Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meyer's withdrawal was a complete surprise to the Administration, since Meyer at the start had stated that he would serve his full five-year term. More than that, the resignation was a serious blow to the Bank, which is far from "the stage of operating activities." The loss of the Bank's head, and its consequent loss of face, might now delay actual operation for months...
...last night at the claim of the National Association of Real Estate Boards that tenants would accept a 15 percent increase if they received a year's lease, declaring that "the hardships which such an increase would work on untold numbers of citizens, especially home-hungry veterans, and the blow that lifting of controls would deal to the entire veterans housing program are of such magnitude as to demand immediate response from everyone. This response must be clearly evident Tuesday night at Rindge Hall...
...thousands of American men who would otherwise have been lost. God grant that we might have had this bomb at the start of the conflict. God grant that this nation have such a weapon as this if & when our enemies feel the time is ripe to strike another blow at Freedom and mankind...
...invasion and civil war. Given the rank of general, Dr. Yu runs his Communications Ministry like a military chief of staff, keeps detailed "phase charts" of his repair offensives. A scholar and administrator rather than a politician, he is generally respected (even by the Reds whose saboteurs persistently blow up his rails). Handicapped by continuing warfare and overwhelming shortages, Yu gets more credit for intelligent and sustained effort than for tangible results. One realistic objective: to get all the railroads in, the Yangtze Valley and South China up to prewar levels next year...
...ordinary company, such a blow might have been fatal. But Harry Ferguson Inc. is no ordinary company. Thanks to old Henry Ford, its manufacturing setup is probably the most remarkable in the country. Its basic idea is a pet Ford word, decentralization. Ferguson has built up a system of manufacturing 46 farm implements to go with its tractors through 105 subcontracting plants scattered throughout the country, close to their markets. Example: the Towner Manufacturing Co. of Santa Ana, Calif, makes offset disc harrows for orchards, because the biggest orchard market is almost in its back yard...