Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Frenchman: If the Russians invade France, Mr. Truman will drop his atom bombs on Russia, but not on Paris...
Second: C'est ça. So the best thing is to explain the situation to Mr. Truman, then he won't drop his atom bombs on Russia...
First: C'est ça. Then if he doesn't drop them on Russia, the Russians won't send us to Russia...
Captain Herbert MacWilliams of the Chinese National Aviation Corp., formerly a U.S. Navy search pilot, spiraled the plane down to 200 feet and leveled off to drop our 11,000-lb. cargo of rice. Six soldiers, moving stiffly in heavily padded khaki uniforms, wrestled the 50-lb. rice bags to the open hatch, tumbled them out and watched them land in tiny puffs of dust in a walled compound near the field...
...market bounced up, recovering a fourth of its losses. But on Friday, in the broadest session on record (out of 1,415 stocks listed, 1,174 were traded), the averages went down again. By week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average was down to 178.94, a drop of 10.82, wiping out the gains of the pre-election rally of the last five weeks. It was the market's worst four days since the spring of 1940 (when the Nazis rolled over the Low Countries...