Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will help the railroads both to fight the war and win the peace. For war, they need a healthy cash account; they must stand ready to haul troops and war materials in unscheduled rushes, which is expensive. And if they are to survive the peace, the roads must be flush enough to buy equipment- new,streamlined, experimental, costly-with which to compete in a world full of freight and passenger planes...
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President Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile was a very sick man last week. His ruddy face now had the flush of fever. As he lay in his bed in the Moneda Palace, the daily bulletins about his health spoke always of his condition, never mentioned the disease from which Don Tinto was suffering. But three of the four doctors attending him were specialists in tuberculosis...
...General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell flew from India to London. There he had frequent talks with Winston Churchill and with Chief of the Imperial General Staff General Sir John Dill. One day he went out into Dorsetshire to see if he could flush a few partridge. He bagged two brace. When someone asked what he would do with them, he answered: "Eat them myself, of course, in Teheran on Tuesday." This week, sure enough, Sir Archibald was in Iran, nearly 3,000 miles by air from the Dorset downs. He had stopped on the way for urgent discussion with General...
...back. All over the State, in the last six years, bright new privies have gone up. Each privy is a three-holer (big, medium and little). By last week, the State could boast 156,706 new outhouses-approximately one for every 14 citizens (not counting some 800,000 flush toilets...