Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson, a longtime New Dealer and favorite of Franklin Roosevelt ("He was just like a daddy to me"), told the farmers what they wanted to hear: if elected, he would get them plenty of farm-to-market roads, keep farm prices up, bring in more rural electrification. He was for a big Army, Navy and Air Force, aid to Europe, and more money for Texas schools...
...Mukden defense perimeter. Said a ragged shopkeeper, crouched in the station with his family of ten: "We will go to Tientsin where my ancestors lived. We'll become farmers again." The Chinese Reds would gladly let him through. The message of despair that he and other refugees would bring to Nationalist China was payment enough...
...plants owned by Westerners, were now willing to go along with the new setup. The expansion in Big Steel's western fabricating facilities was expected to spur its Geneva plant to produce at capacity (1,300,000 tons a year). Westerners hoped that the added volume would help bring down the price of western steel...
...biggest chunk-upwards of $200 million-went to Boeing, which got the bulk of the bomber orders. Orders for 162 more of its huge B50 Superforts will bring its total backlog close to $500 million. Expanding to get out the planes, Boeing had reopened its vast Wichita plant No. 2; and housewives and farmers were going back to their wartime jobs to help modernize B-29s and make B50 parts...
...Shaw was a hard man with a dollar, the agency's London office thought Shaw's endorsement might be obtained by "a combination of audacity and a large sum of money" ($4,000 was suggested). New York suggested London try "audacity ... leaving the money for him to bring up." Audacity worked. Shaw first repudiated the quote-it was "manifest nonsense," he said, to call Ireland a land of peace-then he composed a substitute...