Word: channell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President switched themes. He proposed an assault on the inflationary spiral from three sides. To relieve the inflationary pressure of too much loose cash, he asked that consumer credit controls (abandoned Nov. 1) be restored, that speculation on the commodity exchanges be limited, and that savings be increased. To channel scarce goods into essential uses, he wanted authority to control inventories and to allocate such essentials as steel and grain...
...more than doubled the number of playgrounds and swimming pools. Among the items on his agenda: a huge boys' club for the city's worst slum, the "Irish Channel"; the rebuilding of old Shakespeare Park in the heart of the Negro district...
...tiny (30-ft.) boats duly began patrolling the channel, squirting their 20 nozzles as ominously as they could for news photographers. But the New Mexico did not arrive. In rough weather off the Long Island coast the tugs cast off her tows, and for a few hours the New Mex strayed alone on the Atlantic. Finally the Coast Guard found the battleship wallowing helplessly in heavy seas and the tugs got lines aboard once more...
Over the English Channel near Lands End, a Mosquito light bomber climbed to 36,400 feet. Lanky "boffin" (scientific expert) Gerald Bernard Lockee Bayne of the Ministry of Supply touched the bomb-release button, and "Vicky," the Ministry's bomb-airplane-rocket, plunged down through the thin, cold...
...Like to Know." Early last week President Truman had summoned Congressional leaders to the White House. He posed the alternatives. Either the U.S. provides quick help for Europe, he said, or Communism will sweep across the Continent to the Channel. Secretary of State George Marshall and Under Secretary Robert Lovett backed him up with a detailed description of growing Communist strength, and of the deepening despair of Western Europe. Then the discussion began. As recalled by several participants in the meeting, it went somewhat as follows...