Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shall we," he yelled, "be so blind as to follow those who would lead our people along that gloomy road of disillusionment along which Hitler led the people of Germany, Mussolini led the people of Italy, and . . . Stalin is leading the people of Russia?" He strongly intimated that a sensible man would decide...
Ford Motor Co. last week posted its second round of price rises in less than two months. Blaming increased costs and "material shortages which cause production interruptions," it added $75-about 5%-to the price of Fords.* Lincolns and Mercurys were boosted proportionately, and other manufacturers were sure to follow suit-Nash, for instance, when their new models come out this fall...
...know the earth is a large magnet; it is also covered with definite water and air currents; it probably is also radioactive in that radio waves follow definite surface patterns. Instead of the bird inheriting a flight practice from its ancestry, it probably inherits some sort of receiver mechanism which allows it to follow directions for long distances, and over large bodies of water. As a matter of fact the waves it follows may not be radio waves at all but they may be air currents or some other form of wave. All the bird needs is a receiver mechanism...
...grandson of Uncle Henry reading with an air of furious sincerity a speech ghostwritten for him by Lewis Frank Jr., the debonair son of a Detroit Christmas tinsel manufacturer. The Frank speeches, so different from Wallace's own rambling style, bristle with Communist clichés, un-deviatingly follow the Communist line...
...trouble began when power-hungry Local 768 of the C.I.O.'s Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers asked Univis for an immediate 10?-an-hour raise, with an added, unspecified amount to follow. The firm had requested a 60-day extension of negotiations, but the workers refused and walked...