Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman's coattails and voted against him practically ever since, was in for a talk on,party principles-and party patronage! (Friendly Republicans were not overlooked. California's Representative Richard J. Welch and Oregon's Homer Angell found a willing presidential ear for their problems-coast shipping, irrigation, public power...
James Zellerbach, 57, a slight, balding Pacific Coast paper & pulp man (Crown Zellerbach), had bustled into Italy nine months ago, an'EGA chief brimming with vim, vigor and the proverbial vitality of American business. Left-wing Italian newsmen heckled and flustered him. Government ministers, explaining land redistribution, stared when he cut them short with "I'm not interested in politics. I want facts. It's strictly a business proposition." Washington heard that Zellerbach had antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans...
...plant, indigenous to the west coast of South America, which resembles a blackthorn bush, grows to a height of eight feet...
Nineteen years ago, U.S. experts stopped the black fly's first severe invasion of the hemisphere, in Cuba. At that time they imported a parasitic insect from Malaya that destroyed the pest. But for Mexico, where the fly turned up in 1935 in west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...
...Salvaged from a frigate which sank off the Dutch coast in 1799 with ?1,000,000 in gold aboard, ruining many underwriters. The bell hangs over Lloyd's center rostrum, is rung by a "waiter" in scarlet and gold. One stroke means disaster at sea; two mean good news...