Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news summaries, then gave up.* In bar and barbershop, the program went widely undiscussed. Until it was cut down into specific projects, polished with hard detail, and most important, implemented by a concrete discussion of ways & means to carry it out, Franklin Roosevelt's plan would merely gather dust in the most respectable of Congressional pigeonholes...
...harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend low, even to the dust. He must slip off his load and his proud trappings of purse and power. To be saved for 'a new Heaven and a new Earth' the diverse people of democratic civilization must think in new terms -new terms as citizens, new terms as nations, new terms...
...over or close to Japanese-held territory. In winter, the planes ice up; in summer they fight thunderstorms and cyclones. In some parts of India it rains as much in one day as it does in a year in New York. In other parts it rains practically never. Severe dust storms are frequent...
General MacArthur's raiders, flying through sulfur fumes and corrosive dust from Rabaul's volcanoes, were bent on disorganizing this concentration. Their record: in Blanche Bay were the hulks of 58 ships; 26 others had been bombed out of service...
...Army, Navy and Lend-Lease. So far so good. But the big trouble is that Government purchasing agents have probably gone beyond all rhyme or reason. Of the mountains of canned goods bought last year, the Government has so far used about one-third-all the rest gathers dust and rust (but no vitamins) in warehouses and quartermaster depots. Moan the canners: now the Government plans to expand buying, thus build stockpiles still higher...