Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heeren is seldom told what a chemical is wanted for, but in most cases he can make a shrewd guess. Because many a chemical, like Michler's ketone, is known by more than one name, Heeren's file is a complicated affair. Once a chemist asked for sodium propionate; after long research Heeren discovered that this rarity was made in hundreds of tons as an insecticide under the trade name "Mycoban." He learned to watch out for requests from cranks and small-boy amateurs who some times ask for dangerous ingredients. His mail varies between advanced chemical information...
...political convention, and talked like Labor's Town Meeting. The delegates elected Walter Reuther first vice president over Communist-backed Dick Frankensteen by 345 votes, then turned round and elected Frankensteen second vice president over Reuther's nominee, Dick Leonard, by about 300 votes. Apparently the rank & file seemed to think they could best protect themselves by perpetuating the U.A.W.'s civil war, thus keeping the balance of power in their own hands. Actually the U.A.W. went home from Buffalo no solid bloc for anything or anybody...
There was the snappy platoon leader in the Schiaprelli sports coat (He'd been to military academy) who said, "Column of files from the right, left file forward march" with the intrepidity of a seasoned Master Sergeant...
...Nazification of Germany was nearly complete twelve years ago. Naziism's rank & file-the street fighters, civil servants, savants, Jew-baiters, Red-haters, Führer-supporters-these had swirled up out of the demoralized, frustrated lower middle class. Mucked about by the last war, by inflations and depressions, worried neurotic by unemployment, pressed between big business and the trade unions-these were the ones who turned to Hitler and the Nazi Party for economic salvation, for personal advancement, for resurrection of their Fatherland...
...some $50,000,000 ; in a surprise action by James Henry Roberts ("Jimmy") Cromwell, 47, serious-talking-and-writing (The Voice of Young America, Pax Americana) playboy, short-time U.S. Minister to Canada ; eight years after their marriage, one week before her Reno residence would permit her to file a Nevada suit ; in Trenton...