Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dead in scheduled airlines accidents in the U.S. during the darkest hours...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
...good talent for putting over a humorous song; she would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
Whatever their politics, a majority of Koreans are dead set against a continuing sin tak. Most outspoken foes are old, Princetonian (Ph.D. 1910) Syngman Rhee and his big rightist coalition. Said Rhee last week: "More good can come to Korea if this present conference breaks than if it comes to an agreement. If I were General Hodge . . . I would not waste time talking with the Russians...
Melting Exports. Nevertheless, for the world's economy, July 15 will mean a jolt. Enough pounds can be converted into dollars after that date to hasten the currency crisis now dead ahead. If measures are not taken by the U.S. to put dollars back into foreign circulation, U.S. exporters, and the nation, will find themselves in deep trouble. Already, Britain has cut her U.S. imports by $800 million a year. In the last two months, many Latin American countries have sharply curtailed luxury and "nonessential" imports...