Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, two days before the treaty's abrogation became effective, the Japanese were still hopefully wangling for a renewal, which the U. S. State Department had no faint intention of making. The zero hour rather than the words of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles finally convinced Japan's Ambassador to Washington Kensuke Horinouchi of the facts...
...wrote on. Through the ceiling-high window, framing the long roll of grass, tired-green now with winter, came the faint honks of the cabs, rolling shoppers home with Christmas packages. Thousands of miles away, helmeted men squinted through bombsights; homeless families trudged despairingly through the snow...
...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. There are gathered the considered opinions of economists, several big statistical organizations, 130 bankers, contractors, city and FHA officials, realtors, architects, engineers, from 21 cities. Their composite conclusion: 1940 is likely to be the U. S. building industry's best year in a decade (damnation by faint praise), a $6,558,000,000 year, up only 4% from 1939 (1920-29 average...