Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Harry Truman had time to stop and catch his breath. The burden of crisis had shifted from the presidency to other hands. The tangled issues of OPA, the draft, labor legislation were squarely, if temporarily, up to Congress. Secretary of State Byrnes was off for Paris, trying to crack the Big Four deadlock on peace treaties. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was guiding U.S. plans for control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). Poised at dead center, the President had nothing to do but wait...
...simple, hardworking life. His wife Maurine is working on an occupation diary, and preparing to organize a U.S. wives' club. His daughter Ann, 19, and his son William, 20, are both in Austria. His pet cocker spaniel Pal is now famed through his master's bitter crack: "Here are the Russians with 150,000 troops and here I am with my cocker spaniel...
Carmine & Scarlet. The campaign had been frenzied, but on voting day there was little trouble for the 70,000 carabinieri and crack police mobilized to keep order. Near the Vatican young Communists wearing scarlet neckerchiefs eyed with composure the carmine sash of 95-year-old Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he cast his vote. King Umberto, after long discussions with his advisers, decided to vote. Queen Marie-José had to wait in line for half an hour...
...Angeles. One matron complained that a competitor's soap wouldn't suds-up properly. Luckman, who thought it a good soap, challenged this. So he was hauled into the kitchen, made to roll up his sleeves and find out for himself. The woman was right. Her parting crack: "Young man, you have a lot to learn about the soap business...
...show: 25,000 loaded freight cars stood dead on the tracks and 93,750 through passengers were marooned. Muskegon, Mich, felt the strike too: one 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars were tied up. It was the same at Fargo, N.D. (where the Great Northern's crack Empire Builder ground to a stop) and at high little towns on the mountain divisions and in the yards at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...