Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cabinet whose drawers actually slide smoothly. His simple secret: when resinous pine is rubbed against a hard wood, both become slippery and glass-smooth, slide more easily the more they are rubbed. Orders for 1,700 poured in, have kept the Carnation Co. hustling as it supplied a good chunk of the requirements of the Army and Boeing Aircraft in Seattle...
Many a foreign nation (Great Britain, Norway, and The Netherlands) in peacetime earns a good chunk of the money with which it buys U.S. goods by its worldwide shipping services. Thus, the U.S. cannot greatly expand exports to these countries if it deprives them of an important means of paying for them. Unless a way can be found out of this dilemma, the U.S. will find itself with a pool of idle merchant ships far beyond the modest 5,000,000 tons set out by A.M.M.I...
State Made of Citizens. A world government, to be strong in its own right, would have to be the master of its members. It would have to be granted by the separate nations a sizable chunk of their sovereignty. It would have to be able to deal directly with people-to tax them, jail them, regulate them, protect them. It would have to be a federation, a genuine union...
...year job as president of Chicago's United Wallpaper, Factories, in 1941, to earn $1 a year with OPM. Later he joined SPAB, did plenty of the spade work converting U.S. industry to war. Before he went to Washington, he had converted a good chunk of his own plant...
Though not from Charlotte, the commanding officer is one of the Evac's favorite characters: he is a non-medical Army man, Colonel Rollin L. Bauchpies of Mauch Chunk, Pa., who calls the hospital's venereal disease section "Casanova." The enlisted men of the unit are mostly New Englanders. They come in for a lot of Mason-Dixon Line ribbing...