Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of his son-in-law, David R. Coker, whose large affairs in South Carolina needed overseeing, kindly, seam-faced Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper's resignation was at last announced. Instantly a Big Business chorus arose led by President George H. Davis of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, seeking to head off the Hopkins appointment. Franklin Roosevelt, like his most trusted friend, laughed away questions about it and Christmas continued to come, with two Cabinet stockings instead of one for the White House Santa Claus to fill...
...Also short on cash are: 1) Italy, where the 1939-40 budget last week revealed that during the next fiscal year Italy will suffer an unexpected 4,755,000,000 lire ($237,750,000) deficit, largely due to arms expansion; 2) France, where the Chamber of Deputies last week worked on the greatest arms budget since the World War which, in its ordinary and extraordinary appropriations, upped last year's budget...
...same time Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet publicly told Italy, in a speech before the Chamber of Deputies, that any surprise move intended to oblige France to code territory can lead only to armed conflict...
...hours M. Daladier addressed the Chamber in language that impressed even the reporters. He charged that the Communists had plotted the general strike to shake him out of office, claimed he had police records and Communist manifestoes to prove it. "Its aim,'' M. Daladier said, ''was to bring about the resignation of the government through a popular demonstration. To do that the strike leaders did not hesitate to try to hold up the whole life of the country...
...which the walnuts ride on whizzing belts past a buzzsaw. The buzz-saw nicks a groove in the shells of the nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...