Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel industry had gotten its open hearths going in double-quick time. It would be up to 78.4% of capacity this week. But weeks will pass before steel is flowing evenly to industry again. And the boost in steel prices has raised a host of new problems for suppliers. OPA hoped that the raise might be absorbed along the line. But where and how? The price raise may make it harder than ever for manufacturers to break the bottlenecks -e.g., in castings-which have plagued industry as viciously in peace as in war. For lack of one small part, many...
...road, whooping up the picture's merits and trumpeting the number of Gone With the Wind records already shattered. Some of them: shooting time, eight months and three weeks, about a month more than Selznick's GWTW; extras and bit players, 3,000; nine stars, including Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Lillian Gish and Jennifer (Bernadette) Jones, who is cast this time as a sexy, busty half-breed...
...rightish. rabble-rousing "nationalists" like Gerald L. K. Smith. Of this kind of criticism, Torrey Johnson says: "Maybe he [Hearst] saw a million people across the country were going to Y.F.C. rallies every week and he decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten a dime from him and we've never met. . . . We don't want anything to do with [Gerald L. K. Smith] or anyone with a political ax to grind. Y.F.C. is a 100% religious movement...
...been as peaceful as a henhouse at laying time. Hardly a head was turned as New Mexico's harmless-looking Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez rose and said: "I move that the Senate proceed to consideration of S. 101." Too late, his startled colleagues realized that a fox had gotten loose in their midst-S. 101 was the Fair Employment Practice bill which Southern Senators mortally hate and fear...
...peacemaker, Jim Mooney has already gotten results; and Sorensen bids fair to win his argument. Within a few months Willys expects to borrow enough from a New York bank to modernize its plant in Toledo. By that time, Willys expects to be able to announce details...