Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Month ago, Oklahoma's squarejawed, square-shooting Wesley E. Disney set the fuse. Disney, 59, a Kansas-born onetime trial lawyer, widely popular in the House, is an old hand at political fireworks. Back in 1923 he directed the successful impeachment of an Oklahoma Governor. Last year, almost singlehanded, he upset the Treasury's attempt to cut the tax allowances of oil-well operators (Oklahoma's chief industry). In many another tax revolt Oklahoma's Disney has been well up front...
Last week Wesley Disney's fuse burned down, exploded. The House vote against Franklin Roosevelt's order was more than an ominous reprimand to a President; for Congress, it was an action without modern precedent. Congressional historians could not recall when any other Congress in American history had voted to revoke an executive order...
Greasy, thick-lipped Pierre Laval went home and sought solace in music. He turned on his radio and heard in idiomatic French: "Frenchmen! Take up arms against the invaders and light the fuse of revolt. Ici Moscou. Ici Moscou." He spun the dial nervously and heard London's Fighting French station saying: "Frenchmen, Wait!" He felt better, but not much...
...Chicago, Continental Roll & Steel Foundry has upped production 20% with 200 workable employe suggestions since January. Elgin Watch Co. (at Elgin and Aurora, Ill.) has seen its fuse plant zoom to 65% above its production quota in the two months its shop committee has been in existence. Aurora's Independent Pneumatic Tool Co. has seen a 21% production increase, is hauling in 100 new production ideas a week-and paying for good ones at the low rate of one $5 defense stamp apiece, because the committee asked the company not to pay more...
...Eurasian Triangle." "It is imperative," he insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power to destroy not merely itself but all other parts of the world. ... As a tremendous bomb the Eurasian Triangle may be divided into a European fuse or detonator, and an Asiatic powder charge." The history of Europe in the last hundred years is a history of the attempt to explode this bomb by bringing together the detonator and powder charge. "The detonator is composed of the militaristic peoples that have for centuries dominated or attempted to dominate...