Word: carting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loud protests greeted the decision. Even scientists thought that AEC put the horse behind the cart. They felt that power plants were not a problem for cloistered academicians, but for engineers. Some industrialists grumbled that if AEC's slow, cautious approach had been tried on the internal combustion engine, physicists would still be riding to work on their bicycles. Monsanto Chemical's Executive Vice President Dr. Charles Thomas has argued: "We can't go out today and build a power plant that is a very good power plant. But to go from A to E you have...
Apples. Apples, which gyrated in price from 64? a bushel in 1937 to $2.96 in 1945, upsetting many a grower's cart, were admitted to futures trading on Chicago's Mercantile Exchange. By offering buyers a chance to hedge in the futures market, growers hoped to steady prices for this year's crop (estimate: 100,445,000 bushels...
...found the woman? She had written him a letter-here he triumphantly produced a letter with a Haverstraw postmark-and had smuggled it out in a "vegetable cart." He opened the letter and recited a dramatic line: "Once more I beg you not to let me perish here...
Even so, those who can flee by land are looked on as far better off than those who cannot leave at all. The travelers go by foot or by horsecart. The cart and horses (usually two) are a risk. At best they can be sold along the way for part of the original cost. At worst they will be confiscated by the military; when that happens, the owner had best be humble and pretend he is giving them up as a gift...
...Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street scene by Stuart Davis. A few canvases with less familiar trademarks made gallery-goers look twice: Joe Jones's "Departure" from a grim and desolate wasteland; Henry Koerner's tired old couple, huddled in a cart, gazing numbly at the ruin about them; Theodore Lux Feininger's old-fashioned engines, squatting eerily on old-fashioned tracks, like ghosts in the night...