Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.O.P. Congressmen watched suspiciously. In spite of all the fine words, they felt that their brainchild was in unsympathetic hands. But they were determined that it should work. They prepared to double the funds for the expanded NLRB, promised that the Mediation and Conciliation Service would get all the money it needed...
...morning last week, 47-year-old Alice McCarthy and her friend went for their usual walk in Chicago's Grant Park. Alice wore a neat suit and a plain dark felt hat. As she walked down a park path, a hand grabbed her and a male voice said: "Come in here, baby." Alice jerked away, whirled when the man threatened to shoot and dropped him with a slug in the stomach. The ambulance people arrived to gather up No. 7, and Alice walked calmly off to the station to make out her report. Then she went back...
...rest of the summer, at least, the Midwest will have no more gasoline than in 1946-and consumption is up about 15%. The Midwest felt the pinch first because the railroads, swamped by the bumper wheat crop, could not haul enough tank cars. The East Coast, supplied by tanker, is luckier...
Several immediate explanations are available for the limp, unenthusiastic manner in which the nation's press yesterday handled the recommendations of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists which met at Princeton with Professor Albert Einstein as chairman. Possibly it was felt that these suggestions could be roughly lumped under a "World Government" label and were, as such, old stuff. And that the mention of Professor Einstein's name, which once could inject palpitating interest into any news story, has lost its striking edge through his previous pronouncements on the subject. The press is also not always proff against the frame...
Forgotten Faces. Her crew were not seamen but romantics who invested ?100 apiece in the venture. Of the ten men in her forecastle when she left Plymouth and plunged into a night of gale, only one had ever been to sea before. Soon almost all were seasick. Skipper Seligman felt a gloomy awe at his own temerity. He and the first mate, Lars, had to shout in melodramatic alarm to rouse hands to shorten sail. After the two-day gale had blown out, "faces that we had almost forgotten appeared blinking...