Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor O'Dwyer took a deep breath, crossed his fingers and asked Governor Thomas E. Dewey to authorize an extra $142 million for the city's tax bill-almost one-third of it for subway rehabilitation. The city's annual budget was already second only to the Federal Government's. A few appalled city councilmen suggested raising the subway fare to 8? instead. But the council majority, long sold on the vote appeal of the nickel fare, vetoed the suggestion...
...years of breath-taking success, these have carried him through, two Broadway musicals (Lady in the Dark, Let's Face It), two movies (Up In Arms, Wonder Man), 39 weeks of a new kind of radio show and numberless vaudeville appearances. This year, such activity will bring him more than...
...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...
Within the box raged a miniature storm of aluminum powder, churned by compressed air. With each breath the miners inhaled about five million tiny aluminum particles. The doctors' theory: aluminum powder forms a coating around silica powder in the air sacs, prevents formation of lung-eating silicic acid...
Last week the average citizen picked up his newspaper and got a breath-taking shock. His President told him that the U.S. no longer had plenty. The citizen and his wife read the sudden, almost incredible news...