Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days later six Senators lolled in their chairs, one of them asleep. The galleries were half empty. The U. S., and the Senate with it, was watching the World Series. In Vice President John Garner's cloakroom, office a near-quorum collected around his portable radio, bet cigars on the scores. Despairing of a week-end quorum in the chamber, leaders moved debate ahead to this week. In five days the Great Debate had gone bloop...
...guards, one of whom the family had hired to watch him in the hospital. Near Summit, Ga., an hour's ride from Tattnall, Dick Gallogly and his bride left mother and guards on the roadside, fled in the car for a delayed honeymoon. Two and a half hours later the two guards reported that Dick Gallogly had pulled a gun, forced them to leave the car, ignored his mother's warning: "I think this is the most foolish thing you ever did." Authorities held "on suspicion" the family-hired guard, suspected that the bride supplied...
...side U. S. towns, U. S. brains contained large and unsightly piles of wrecked theories, junked plans, smashed hopes-a wheel off an old 1933 model Technocracy, an axle from Share the Wealth, a busted headlight from Production for Use, fragments of Marxism and the planned economy, half-a-dozen old Utopias that never ran. Here & there under the wreckage were old pieces of twisted slogans, moneychangers out of the temple, 114 days left to save America, grass in the streets, a blue eagle...
...Most of its potato crop of 364,208,000 bushels was in, and rows of dusty vines, weeds, crabgrass covered the stripped fields of Idaho; the half-buried potato houses were filled. Rice production was set at 50,000,000 bushels; sugar beets at 10,677,500 tons...
...Duce, he has performed the difficult feat of remaining neutral between those who want to stay neutral in the war and those who want to join Germany. Meanwhile, his power has noticeably waned. For one reason or another he handed over to the Prince of Piedmont the command of half the Italian Army. The pay of his own Fascist militiamen, who formed the regime's counter-revolutionary force, was suddenly reduced from eight lire (40?) a day to one lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi...