Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press for next year's stiff Fair Deal agenda. There seemed to be plenty of time for kittenish lightheartedness in the soft warmth of the Florida Keys. One day, for example, Congressional Liaison Man Joseph Feeney was roused from a nap in the sun by a dash of cold water. Above him, grinning broadly, stood the President of the U.S., holding two empty water tumblers...
...such buying, the U.S. Government had become the nation's No. 1 warehouse, currently stuck with more corn, wheat and cotton than that held by aU the private firms in the nation. Among the items laid up in Government storehouses, grain elevators and cold-storage caves...
Turn off the hot tap, turn off the cold; Water is precious, scarcer than gold, Remember the supply is very very short, Don't use a gallon when you can use a quart...
...convenience's sake, like to forget. We dare not forget the Nurnberg laws, the Jewish star, the burning of synagogues, the deportation of Jews into foreign lands, misery and death. The gruesome thing about these events is not that they involved the fanaticism of the pogroms . . . The cold gruesomeness of national pedantry, that was the strange German contribution to these events...
...billion . . . and our defenses will be appreciably improved. There will be less waste, less duplication, and more efficiency-and the taxpayer will get one dollar's worth of defense out of every dollar spent." From ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman there was another encouraging report: the cold war was about half won, he said. But, he cautioned, "it is the easiest half that lies behind...