Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powered passenger service. There was an overall 37-day supply on hand. Railroads had a 30-day supply, but steel mills, with only a 14-day stock, would feel the pinch almost immediately. At a time when decontrol had just been put in operation, a coal strike would cause havoc...
Theater Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Burlesque, with June Havoc, Bert Lahr, Tony Ross...
Compared to the other nations of the world--America included--which are still nursing their war wounds or fretting about resulting economic havoc, Switzerland is heaven. Here pilgrims form all over Europe come for their vacations, run hog-wild through richly-laden patisseries, and return home with a watch and a pair of shoes...
...present book shortage has been wreaking almost as much havoc among the faculty as it has among students. Professors have been squandering an enormous amount of hair trying to figure out some means by which their charges will be able to keep up with assignments...
...farmhouses from the Pennine Hills to the seven streams that flow eastward to the Humber, the herders celebrated the end of a ten-day nightmare. But at Leyburn Police Headquarters none liked to look too closely at the body of the huge, tawny Alsatian sheepdog that had wrought the havoc; for in that section of Yorkshire sheep are a livelihood, and no Dalesman cares to admit that his dog has gotten the taste for sheep's blood...