Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election results were a surprise even to Tory leaders: Tory Harris won a smashing victory that set them crowing about a government setback. Labor took what comfort it could from Nicolson's vote, up 1,700 from the 1945 level...
...Southern Comfort...
...Cold Comfort. In spite of the cold weather, which nicked steel and automobile output, the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production for January stood at 192, a peacetime peak, for the third successive month (1935-39 average...
...Comfort. The New York Stock Exchange's income from dues and services to brokers dropped more than $1,000,000 to $7,061,829 last year, said President Emil Schram. There was more trouble ahead. The A.F.L. United Financial Employees union, whose demands for $9 to $15 a week wage raises and a union shop were turned down, threatened a strike of its employees in both the Stock and Curb Exchanges...
...fishers can do this by renting a "bob house" and waiting for bites in the relative comfort of a coal stove. Colonies of these shelters are now flourishing on some of the larger lakes, such as Squam in New Hampshire, Champlain in Vermont, and Sebago in Maine...