Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reveal all its facts to the public, said Oilman Pew. The Senate will find, he said, that the agreement's purposes have been left "entirely in the dark." Worst purpose, from Pew's point of view: a federal regulatory agency which would wreck the U.S. Interstate Oil Compact...
...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...
...high desk was the other piece of office furniture. There he did most of his work, standing. When he wasn't standing he paced, slowly and deliberately-a compact man with grey-streaked hair, long, thin nose and blue gimlet eyes...
Proud Corps. In Washington, compact, 48-year-old Brigadier General Louis Woods, who bosses the Corps's air arm, smoked his usual 14 cigars a day last week and worked diligently at his desk in a corner of the Navy Building. He had seen Cunningham's division of five officers and 30 men grow into an organization which embraces almost one-fourth of the Corps's entire personnel. Over its size and its quality Marines pop their buttons with pride...
...help their Compact accomplish something, the million U.S. Congregationalists are asked to write their Senators and delegates to Party conventions, telling them that Congregationalists (like Methodists and Baptists, who are conducting similar drives) want "a world reorganization which will justify the price of victory...