Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrated "Red Ball" truck highway across France, Piper Cubs at low altitude now patrol the roads, radio the nearest salvage depot when they spot a breakdown. Behind the fighting lines, the "cannibalizing" of tanks and guns (piecing together new units from dismantled wrecks) has been put on an assembly-line basis. But even miracles have their limits: there came a point where the supply miracle had been stretched to the snapping point. Organization and improvisation had done their utmost. The Allied armies slowed down, stopped...
...breakdown in negotiations meant that Cuba's President-elect, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, must choose between sending back Batista's hagglers or appointing a new mission instructed to accept the U.S. offer. Then he would face the angry sugar-growers...
...Francisco society women sewed costumes, donated furniture for props, decorated San Francisco's Civic Auditorium with tree prunings from Golden Gate Park. Merola ended the season with a nervous breakdown...
Pollster George Gallup this week completed his first state-by-state poll. His total score, if the election were held now: Roosevelt, 286 electoral votes; Dewey, 245. (Needed to win: 266.) A further Gallup breakdown showed: 157 "safe" for Roosevelt, 129 leaning toward Roosevelt; 141 "safe" for Dewey, 104 leaning toward Dewey. Five big states were in the doubtful column: Pennsylvania (35), California (25) and Massachusetts (16) credited to Roosevelt; and New York (47) and New Jersey (16) credited to Dewey...
...like Gideon, who slowly learned to read and write, the Convention slowly caught on. By the time it adjourned, it had fashioned a sound basis for a democratic community of whites and Negroes. It had provided for equality at the polls, compulsory education, the breakdown of the plantation system...