Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever faster in its war of production. In Baltimore a test pilot took up the first bomber powered by a Ford-built motor. Americans, unbeatable at making things, were beginning to make the things they needed. The nation grimly heeded WPBoss Donald M. Nelson's statement that the "golden months" were gone, but that "ten silver months" were left...
...steady golden stream, Congress continued appropriating billions upon billions for the Army & Navy. The figures, almost beyond human comprehension, were enough to make a Jap squint...
...most remarkable sheep since the time of Jason the Argonaut nibbled, stared, bleated last week in a new home at Middlebury, Vt., where they are now beginning the third chapter of their careers, in the care of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry. Though they do not have golden fleece, they may be almost as valuable to U.S. farmers, wool-wearers and mutton-eaters. Their unique characteristics...
Next came The Education of Henry Adams and John Dewey's Democracy and Education. Henry James's Golden Bowl edged out his brother's Principles of Psychology for 13th place, and Lenin's Imperialism; the State and Revolution nosed out his master Marx's Das Kapital. Also rans: Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Bergson's Creative Evolution; Frazer's Golden Bough; W. H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; William James's Moral Equivalent of War; Lewis' Babbitt; Parrington's Main...
...first time two new flowers, created by the genetic effect of X-rays on seeds, were offered by a nurseryman to U.S. gardeners this week. Both flowers are calendulas, one a large, golden, double-petaled variety, the other an orange semidouble...