Word: boil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When one man gives forth with a sweeping ukase that shakes a $150,000,000 industry, threatens to run upward of 500 radio stations out of business, and cuts off one of the American public's favorite forms of entertainment, indignant emotions and explosive issues are bound to boil over. And so the order of music's muscle man, J. Caesar Petrillo, that a week ago Friday stopped dead the cutting of all new phonograph records, has been dynamic in its repercussions. These have ranged all the way from a patriotic appeal by Elmer Davis and Peglarian accusations of dictatorial...
Army procurement regulations were 1,500 pages long, weighed 18 lb. Then Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of SOS, came along. He got Colonel Albert J. Browning, who once resigned from SPAB because he could not stand red tape, to boil the regulations down. New size: 100 pages, one pound...
...Florida Agricultural Experiment Station scientists gave the public a formula for eking out sugar: mix 1 Ib. of sugar with 7 oz. water, ¼ teaspoon tartaric acid, cover, boil for 30 minutes, cool. Result is equal sweetening, cup for cup, to straight sugar...
...Chrysler-130,000 compared to its previous high of 65.000. The correspondents wrote about production lines miles long. . . . Chrysler making at least $675,000,000 worth of tanks, planes and guns in 1942. . . . Ford with eleven miles of airplane runways at Willow Run . . . eleven miles of statistics which all boil down to the biggest, the best, the fastest, the most...
...Universal licked. The only round Fields is known to have lost was the production's title: he wanted it called The Great Man. After the present title was selected, the comedian snarled: "What does it matter; they can't get that on a marquee. It will probably boil down to Fields-Sucker...