Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis came almost without warning. For months Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell had been making alternately alarming and reassuring statements about the fuel supply. When he rose last week in the House of Commons, it was not to discuss prospects in the dim & distant future, but to state the stunning fact that industry in London and a large part of England and in Wales would have to shut down; that shops, buildings, hotels could have no electric power for five daylight hours a day; that domestic users of electricity could also have none in those hours. Only "essential" services would...
Last week in Manhattan Sir Robert showed off his latest model. Installed on the bridge of the great Queen Elizabeth, it makes wartime radar look like a dim-eyed has-been. When the Elizabeth comes up the Narrows, the "scope" shows a highly detailed map, with buildings, docks, the speedway along the Brooklyn shore. Ships lying at anchor are well-defined shapes, not mere blobs. As the big ship approaches her berth, the scope shows the dock, the ferries, even the small tugs under the Elizabeth's bows...
...pick-&-shovel men sank a shaft laboriously through layers of "recent" graves. Below the lowest they found what they sought: a great tomb 50 ft. wide and 150 ft. long. It was built of sun-dried mud brick, not finely chiseled stone, for it dated from the dim beginning years, when Great-Grandmother Egypt herself was young...
...fact that some people laugh out loud at the thought of President Robert Taft is due, to a large degree, to Bob Taft himself. Heretofore, the nation has had only dim and somewhat prejudiced glimpses of him. In the days before Pearl Harbor he was an unpopular isolationist. He has certain rough edges, a twangy voice, and is impatient of nonsense. He is.no orator. Generally he is regarded as a cold fish, a reactionary, an enemy of Henry Wallace's Common...
Without Roach, the future of independent steelmen in the West looked dim. The only remaining major Western independent was Henry Kaiser, who cried that Consolidated's sale "could very easily have the effect of eliminating other small producers and myself." But many another industrialist hoped that the increase in Big Steel's fabricating facilities could permit Geneva to produce at capacity (1,300,000 tons a year), ultimately help bring down the price of Western steel...