Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general had asserted that the deep freezers he wangled for himself and friends were unsalable "factory rejects." Testimony taken in closed sessions established that this simply wasn't so. The closed sessions also turned up a few more details about Albert Verley & Co., the Chicago perfume makers that gave Vaughan the seven deep freezers...
...most embarrassing revelation of the investigation stemmed from the testimony of a chunky, grey-haired Milwaukee manufacturer named Albert Joseph Gross. The witness was a disgruntled former client of Five-Percenter James V. Hunt, who had boasted of his friendship with Vaughan. Back in 1945, Witness Gross was making deep freezers. He was asked if he had ever shipped any to Washington. He had. Wisconsin's G.O.P. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy asked him who had gotten them...
...hours of vibrant silence, Harry Vaughan issued a statement. Its gist: it was all his fault, but he was innocent. ". . . There was nothing improper in any manner regarding the gifts of these units . . ." it read. "I had a talk with two old friends of mine . . . The subject of deep freeze units came up and I said that I would like to have...
...Work. India's cities teemed with unemployed, her factories were producing less steel, less cotton cloth and less jute than before independence. Prices were three times as high as in 1939. Last year India imported 2,200,000,000 rupees ($665 million) more than she exported ; she was deep in debt for the balance. Said Nehru in his Independence Day message: "Criticism and self-criticism are always welcome provided they do not take the place of work. Today, India demands work from her children...
...Narrow & Deep. Yet it was not until 1909, six years before his death (at 91), that Fabre first attracted wide popular attention in his native France. In the U.S., although respect for him in scientific circles has always been deep, popular readership has been comparatively narrow; the only U.S. translations of his works are lengthy studies of single insects, published about the time of World War I. This week the publication of The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (Edited by Edwin Way Teale; Dodd, Mead, $3.50) gave English-speaking readers their first full view of the patient Provengal scientist...