Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amazon region is tough to explore on the surface, and almost unknown geologically. But both the Amazon and the towering Andes were covered some 200 million years ago by the same shallow sea. An unexplained disturbance wrinkled the earth's crust. The western part of the sea bottom was lifted high in the air, where its sedimentary strata lie exposed today. The rest (toward the east) is still deeply buried under the tangled jungle...
Temperate Life. All this was good news for the oil companies. Petroleum is believed to come from the dead bodies of minute animals sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. If the same marine fauna flourished in both the U.S. and South America, there should be good oil prospects in the Amazon Basin as well as in Texas...
Certainly, there was no immediate prospect that the bottom would suddenly drop out of the economy. In September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, new highs were reached both in industrial employment (43,000,000) and industrial wages (an average $50.42 a week). The Federal Reserve Board reported that industrial production also rose three points in September to 185% of the 1935-39 average, only five points below the postwar peak in March. And the Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicted that consumers were not likely to cut down their spending...
...will be effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below that which the State Department deems a rock-bottom minimum. Representative Taber, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is not convinced that France and Italy need help. House Majority Leader Hallcck asserts that Mr. Truman's requests will be "shot full of holes" by the time Congress gets through with them; while Speaker Martin feels the whole thing...
Esther called on the Crimson end "spontaneously" from the audience to play a love scene with her. The brown-haired, hazel-eyed movie star, whose more delicate dimensions, measuring from top to bottom are 36 inches, 26 inches, and 36 inches, instructed Guidera that all he had to do was to say "No"--up to a point. However, Guidera displayed himself to be no discerner of such fine points...