Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damage ran into millions of dollars. Two radio towers were toppled at Fort Lauderdale (where, in the lull of the eye's passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...
...nerves between Counsel Denham and organized labor was on. The courts might have to decide the winner. Last week in Fort Worth came the first test. A federal judge held the anti-Communist provision to be legal...
...week. As he referred to "this awful economic crisis," Bevin had a sudden thought. Said he to the Legion's former National Commander Paul Griffith: "I know, Commander, that you will forgive me for suggesting the other day at Southport that you should take the gold out of Fort Knox. It does not seem to have been a very popular speech in America." While the diners laughed, Bevin continued: "Well, I do not mind whether it is Lend-Lease or that [gold], but all I say is this, that you can't get settlement in the world unless...
...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...
...third week in a row, stocks on the New York exchange drifted lower. The day after Britain's Ernest Bevin suggested that the U.S. redistribute its gold (see FOREIGN NEWS), a sudden flurry of selling brought forth the waggish explanation: "The British are within 50 miles of Fort Knox...