Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent survey, FORTUNE pollsters asked a cross-cut of the nation how it felt about the President's 1) handling of foreign policy, 2) approach to home problems, 3) relations with Congress. Results: 75.6% thought he was-doing a good-to-excellent job on foreign policy; 58.9% liked his homework; 64.7% felt he knew how to handle Congress...
Direct cause of the blowoff was Republican cross-examination of General of the Army George C. Marshall, which consumed seven days while a plane stood by to rush the General to his urgent job in China. Michigan's eager Senator Homer Ferguson, still looking for evidence that Franklin Roosevelt had war-mongered, took up 92 hours of Marshall's time...
...midst of this, the strikers last week got two lifts. A Leamington farmer donated 80 chickens to make sandwiches for pickets; Windsor's Red Cross, Junior Chamber of Commerce and newspaper representatives banded together for a new contribution: Christmas cheer for strikers' children...
Great oilfields may come from little bacteria. So says Dr. Claude E. ZoBell, a California "geomicrobiologist." He has proved that bacteria and petroleum cross each other's paths all along the line...
Fast Mix. The Douglas "Mixmaster," military prototype of the DC-8, cracked the cross-cpuntry speed record. With a good tail wind helping its tail propellers, it averaged 432 miles an hour from Long Beach, Calif., to Washington's Boiling Field. Flying time: five hours, 17 min utes, 34 seconds. After the plane landed, one motor caught fire. It was quickly extinguished, but the plane had to be ignobly pushed to the hangar...