Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy coffee cakes known as "sinkers" were first served. The first of these rapid-transit chow palaces was in Park Row next to where the Park Row building now stands, but there was a more aristocratic one in Temple Court at the corner of Nassau and Beeckman streets, with broad-armed chairs instead of tables, where you helped yourself, and the cashier took your word for the amount of your bill. But when Dennett opened another self-serve unit nearer Wall Street, he installed a gate and checkers who punched a ticket for your trayful...
...Over the broad Midwest prairies the harvest spilled northward in a bright golden wave. Last week it brought its bounty to this little farm near Lincoln, Neb., where War Veteran Fred A. Liebers, his wife and their husky son grow wheat and oats, tend their dairy cows and chickens, and feed part of the world...
Aged cars and outworn farm machinery, long parked on flat acres to make them unhealthy for landing enemy aircraft, had been removed for salvage. Stout wires hung alongside broad highways for the same purpose had disappeared. Plate glass was replacing boarded-up shop windows. The Great Western Railway had restored 510 station names erased during the invasion scare. Trams, busses, subways and autos were removing some shades from their lights. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard called for abolition of the blackout...
Something new has been added to Army & Navy airplane insignia. Last week, all over the world, maintenance men got out red & white paints, added a broad white bar to the existing white star on a blue circle. A red border outlines the whole. The change restores the red, white & blue color scheme, affords greater visibility...
...back food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under the prism-hung chandelier in Speaker Sam Rayburn's ornate office. Telegrams were hurried off to more than 50 absentees, mostly in the big cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Members of the House Whip organization streamed in, got a broad sketch of the veto message, were told to go to work on Republicans and Democrats alike with one big argument: "There is going to be a certain amount of inflation, we all know that. It is here already. But we've got to keep the dam propped up some...