Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when the American way has made the country into the greatest power the world has known, there has never been more doubting and questioning. . . . The higher up one goes, the more searching becomes this selfcriticism. . . . Those who rule America are enormously conscious of the total inadequacy of the crude material philosophy of life in which they grew...
...Taft's tour was exciting-thanks to Big Labor. Many labor unions, mostly C.I.O., picketed him. A thousand pickets greeted him in San Francisco. In Los Angeles more than 500 unionists jammed the block in front of the Elks Temple. Some bore signs with crude legends like: "Taft is a stinker, Taft is a schnook, Taft stole a leaf out of Hitler's story book." Some, who were promptly arrested (under a city ordinance) for masquerading, wore Taft-like masks and carried signs which read: "I look like Taft but I don't want to crucify labor...
...same time, reported the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune rather ominously, six crude, homemade bombs were found in Paris, their chief ingredients coming from a brand of French fire extinguisher called "Knock-out." Paris authorities refused to confirm the bomb story, but Britain took it seriously. A feeling of anger swept the country like the one over the recent hanging of two British sergeants in Palestine. London announced that Britain's air defenses had been alerted...
...inch line - world's biggest - will eliminate the present 3,650-mile tanker haul from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Trans-Arabian, affiliate of the Arabian-American Oil Co., will spend $125 million on construction, expects that the line will initially carry some 300,000 barrels of crude...
...working girls, tilt-nosed Betty Oliver was tired of waiting for heaven to protect her. At 34, she was bored with her job and with herself. In her drab little office in Dallas, one day in 1945, she began scrawling doodles in her shorthand notebook. They became the first crude dummies of a magazine for girls like herself. Last week her Business Girl, launched with $7.50 capital, was out of the red and she was ready to ask her stockholders to recapitalize at a round...