Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever the future looked most troubled and unpredictable, President Roxas painted it over with a protective coloring of red, white and blue. For the future of the Philippine Republic would unequivocally depend on the U.S., which had given the Filipinos freedom, and could be counted on to see that no one took it away from them...
...chain of such stores has been the dream of United's energetic, athletic president, Justin Whitlock Dart, 38, ever since he was started in the drug business by Charles R. Walgreen Sr., then his father-in-law. He soon proved that his job did not depend on nepotism. Over the objections of fellow executives, he busily rearranged the interiors of Walgreen drugstores, showed that it was just as important to put an article in the right place in a store as to put the right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change: he separated soda fountains...
Apparently Dr. Slotin and seven or more other scientists were working with "subcritical masses" of uranium or plutonium. Kept apart, these masses were lifeless as lead, but if brought together to form a mass above "critical" size, a chain reaction would start. Its violence would depend on the character of the materials. Probably they were midway in activity between mild-mannered natural uranium and furious plutonium...
Piper does not plan to be in production on the Skysedan before the middle of 1947. So the price will depend upon material and labor costs then. But the price will probably be "under $5,000." Quipped Secretary William T. Piper Jr.: "It will be the best buy on the market, but it won't ever replace the automobile...
Greying, affable Ed Jones is the biggest boss and at the same time the golden goose of Chicago's $25 million-a-year policy syndicate. As such, his well-being is the concern of thousands. His syndicate employs some 5,000 Negroes. Political bosses and ward heelers depend on him to deliver the vote; court officials and police get a healthy cut of the weekly $7,500 in syndicate protection money; the 337,000 citizens of Chicago's teeming Negro belt consider him a hero and a symbol. All of them insist that he remain free and happy...