Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year Earl-who had been patiently raising cattle in Winn Parish and mending political fences-set boldly out to get the governorship again. He talked an oil millionaire named William C. Feazel into backing him. (After election he sent Feazel to the Senate to fill the late Senator John Overton's unexpired term, made Feazel's attorney, Seaborn L. Digby, chairman of the Conservation Commission, which decides how much oil may be pumped from wells...
Mississippi River traffic is booming as never before. The river's 6,600 boat-barge fleet has grown 20% since prewar, and this year will haul an estimated 150 million tons of freight (enough to fill 57,000 freight trains of 50 cars each). At an average $1.50 a ton, that means a record gross of some $225 million...
Last week, to fill a gap in U.S. information, Royall announced a survey of the least known of the possible alternate routes-across the watersheds of the Atrato and Truandó rivers in northwest Colombia. A joint U.S.-Colombian commission will start a full-dress survey within 60 days. The work will take about six weeks, will cost $150,000. The findings will be considered by the U.S. Congress when it gets around-perhaps next year-to redefining U.S. canal policy...
...Journal's staff members is a former linotype operator who always wanted to be a reporter. He saw in the Journal a chance to achieve his frustrated desire, turned in enough material (mostly gripes about the hospital) to fill three issues. The editorial board of fellow patients suggested that he try gathering some hospital news. He became the paper's religious reporter. To the satisfaction of the doctors, he has begun talking constructively about his own problems-the first step toward possible recovery...
...scheme which he had suggested himself last fall and which the President had then ignored. As for the rest of the President's program, such proposals as the long-range housing program would only force inflationary pressures even higher. Said Eccles: "It's like try ing to fill up the bathtub with the stopper...