Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the crush was so bad that customs officers asked Windsor police to detain U.S. shoppers until the jam on the Detroit side cleared. Then they were released in groups of 50 aboard the Detroit-Windsor tunnel bus. On the U.S. side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...time was fast approaching, as far as he was concerned, when they could no longer look to the taxpayer as a financial prop to support agricultural prices at artificially high prices. But what every Senator knew was that Administration policy can change. The outcries of the farmers, or a crush of postwar food surpluses, might make Administrator Jones's warning more of a nostalgic bow to free markets than a firm announcement of things to come...
...speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...
Just for the record, "Our Hearts" is the tale of two college girls who follow an unsuspecting gridiron here to Europe. Cornella has a crush on the poor lad and conspires with Emily to bring herself to his attention. This needless to say, the girls accomplish rather nicely...
Miss Jones begins the film with a nubile crush on her gallant "Uncle" Gotten. Before it is over, she is a full-fledged nurse's aide, whom war has robbed of Fiance Walker. Miss Temple, too young for boys, misses her father intensely and has an innocent crush on Monty Woolley. Mr. Woolley becomes so thoroughly domesticated in the U.S. Home that he even calls a truce with Soda, a huge, wallowing, old, white bulldog who is perhaps the surest-fire character in this sure-fire picture...