Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed. If Texas wanted a steel industry, Texans would have to take over Lone Star from...
...Many found the advent of spring, 1947, an ironical occasion. Some of the nation's fondest dreams had come true. Strikes had dwindled. Production was up. Shelves were loaded with things which a few months ago would have drawn milling crowds, no matter what their prices-roasts, steaks, white shirts, nylons, alarm clocks, men's suits. Canned beer was back and so were fishing tackle, shotgun shells and golf balls. But prices stayed stubbornly high or got higher. Everywhere, the biggest single continuing topic of conversation was the high cost of living-people talked endlessly of how much...
...cabin pressure system went wrong, subjected him to skull-cracking pressure), he showed no nervousness or apprehension over his job. Between flights at Muroc he lounged comfortably in an adobe cottage at nearby Willow Springs. He swam, read, listened to Rachmaninoff and Chopin recordings, dreamily contemplated his fondest ambition: exploring the Amazon with a helicopter. From time to time he climbed into a conventional P-51, flew to Los Angeles to look in on his girl friends...
...tide of Republican fortunes which began to ebb sixteen years ago, and almost disappeared in 1936, yesterday came flooding back with a force equalling even the fondest dreams of B. Carroll Reece, the G.O.P. national chairman. With control of the House of Representatives assured and a majority in the Senate indicated by the latest returns, the Republicans can read the lessons of history and look forward to 1948 with confidence. For without exception, the capturing of a Congressional majority by the party out of power in an off-year election has presaged a Presidential victory by that party two years...
...garden architecture and public parks? De Gaulle agreed, and the Prime Minister called in reporters. He told them that Architect Greber would come to Canada at "the earliest sailing" to begin creating a beautiful national capital - a scheme that has long been one of the P.M.'s fondest dreams...