Word: dents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finale. Despairing of victory, unable to dent Mr. Hatch's annoying highmindedness, griped at Mahout McNary's now open grins, New Dealers began a mild filibuster. With the Senate geared to take up farm appropriations and the reciprocal trade agreements, plan was to talk the Hatch Bill into a pigeonhole. Eloquent Mr. Lee took the floor for a 90-minute speech on farm tenants' problems. To smiling Mahout McNary (one of a half-dozen drowsing Senators listening) reporters sent in a query: Was the Lee speech a filibuster? Mr. McNary answered: "Filibuster? I consider this the greatest...
Last week the food wagons rolled 24 hours a day, because the machine-tool industry is in mid-boom. Few of its 350 plants do not work around the clock. Big toolmen say in a spirit of cheerful frustration: "We can't make a dent on the back-log." The industry makes possible modern assembly lines-it makes the machines that make machinery, machines that make parts so accurately that they can be used interchangeably in any one of a series of airplanes, automobiles, cannons, egg beaters. When a manufacturer develops a new model or expands his productive capacity...
January production, not much below December's, was still too good to allow much dent in high current inventories. Federal Reserve Board production index, 128 in December, will probably be 120 for January, but this includes a seasonal adjustment which penalizes January for not being better than December. Actually, many production lines were kept close to capacity all month by backlog orders left over from 1939. Only now are unfilled orders being cleaned up, a real decline in output getting under...
...during the entire game, both sides put an a thrilling spectacle for the 3200 fans in the stands. The Crimson passing attack had vastly improved since the McGill debacle. Twice during the middle period Dave Eaton's second line executed a perfectly set-up play, permitting Stacy Hulse to dent...
...Romano and Bob James, the other two guards, did not make much of a dent in the scoring column but looked good on the floor. Romano showed speed to burn in his brief appearance, and James, as usual, worked very hard...