Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roscoes Out. Guardsmen with walkie-talkies yelled into their instruments; an ambulance came screaming up the drive. Its driver bawled: "Where are the wounded?" The effect of all this was spectacular: Lieut. Porterfield had told nobody-not even the Capitol police-that he was "recapturing" the Capitol from an imaginary but bloodthirsty...
...employers were General Electric, the Simmons [mattress] Co., 37 steel-container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
...Lose the War." Navymen had said strategic "mass" bombing by the Air Force's B-36 was militarily unsound, even immoral. Bradley gave them a direct unequivocal reply. Strategic bombing, he said, "is our first-priority retaliatory weapon," and the B-36 is the best heavy bomber in the U.S. arsenal...
...admirals had insinuated that the J.C.S. did not know how a war should be fought and Bradley's heavy brows lowered behind his spectacles as he made scornful reply: "Even if I were not personally involved, I would harbor a distaste for such lack of loyalty...
...American countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia backed the Czechs for the vacant seat and disapproved of Yugoslavia, it was both "illegal and improper" that her candidacy even came up before the Assembly...