Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens and Peiraeus alone, between 1,700 and 2,000 men, women & children are dying each day. Not all starve to death. Cholera, typhus, typhoid and dysentery run like a licking brush fire through the weakened population. In mountain settlements and island villages people live a little better. They can find roots, herbs and mussels...
This week Washington was pleased with the response to its new scheme. If it works, it may be extended to munitions makers. The way: extra pay, not thank-you-notes, for ahead-of-schedule deliveries; bonuses, not brush-offs, for bright manufacturing ideas to help beat the Axis...
...method of revealing the true identity of an artist's work, X-ray shadow-graphs have proved, the Fogg exhibition reveals, that four paintings previously accredited to the artist Gorgione are not his. By imagining how to hold a brush, following the strokes in the shadowgraph print, a student can reproduce the size, shape, speed and direction of the artist's brush-stroke, an excellent means of study...
...minor eye defect. As he was leaving the recruiting station, he met a Commander in the Navy who took a real interest in his troubles. A short discussion followed and the Commander secured permission for him to ship on the City of Flint, a ship already famous from a brush with the Nazis. At present Ernie is remaining at work and expects to be called with in the next few days...
...days after Pearl Harbor, Reuther was back on the radio, with a new version of his plan. He bluntly aired his fight with Knudsen, who had given him the brush-off by claiming that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced...