Word: grab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funds will seep into
foreign economies as a byproduct of some $8 billion in military aid.
After V-E day, a U.S. technical mission raced the Russians to grab the presses. The U.S. got two, which exerted a forging pressure of 16,500 tons, three times as much as any operating U.S. press (although, at the time, the Mesta Machine Co. was making an 18,000-tonner). But the Russians snatched the world's largest, a 33,000-tonner. The U.S. later turned the two German presses over to Bohn Aluminum and Alcoa to experiment with aluminum forgings. But while the Russians put their big press to work and started building a 55,000-tonner...
...this apparently appeals to women. So does the movie's ending. The girls stop just before they arrive in California, and dress in feminine clothes. Pretending they are ladies, they march into the town and grab the men. Denise Darcel manages to get her hooks into Taylor, who keeps shouting that he is a woman hater...
...former princely state of Hyderabad lies diamond-like on the plush-green tableland of southern India. In 1948 the Communists tried to grab Hyderabad. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sent in 10,000 police, outlawed the Communist Party, and jailed 6,000 Reds. The Communists switched from smash & grab to a confidence-man technique: through a phony People's Democratic Front they began sponsoring candidates for the first All-India general elections in history, an immense and impressive undertaking in which 173 million people (most of them illiterate) are marching to the polls in an election which will take three...
...stood up. Besides, said he: "I am not convinced that spokesmen for the N.A.M. speak for the majority of American businessmen." U.S. Chamber of Commerce Economist Emerson P. Schmidt fired back. Said he: "OPS has had little to do with stopping price increases, and in all conscience should not grab credit for below-ceiling prices." Schmidt thought that controls have been a failure...