Word: floating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knisely began by examining blood circulation in healthy animals. In all normal animals (including human beings) the red blood cells float separately in plasma like tiny fish in a rapid stream. They flow along freely and often so swiftly that the individual cells cannot be distinguished under a microscope. A normal red cell keeps to itself...
...carpenters, the smiths and the State Department Noahs hacked and hammered away last week building ERP,* the ark, to float Europe out of the deluge of its economic misery...
...show and he knew how to keep it jumping with fun and sightseeing. There was a stop at Colorado Springs and another for a look at the Royal Gorge and there was a bus trip into the mountains in Utah and swimming in the Great Salt Lake ("you float in that water"). Out of Salt Lake City, Sam Conino got a telegram; his wife had her baby O.K. The boys of Sam's local were all traveling without their wives and itching for a real party, and that set it off. When it was over, there were 29 empty...
...chief U.S. logistics problem was the supply of Scotch. It was scarce in Rio, even at $115 a case, and the U.S. Embassy staff had pooled its bottles to float Ambassador Bill Pawley's projected cocktail party for 2,000. When one businessman bragged that he owned four bottles of Scotch, another cracked: "Don't say that out loud or you'll be giving a reception for Marshall...
...world needs went, the first issue was only a penny in the cup, just equal to the Bank's first loan-$250,000,000 to France (TIME, May 19). However, the Bank does not intend to float any more bonds until it sees what Congress does to finance world reconstruction by the "Marshall approach." Only then will the Bank know how much money it needs to finance the "good risks" of the world...