Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champions of the loan were skeptical enough to extend themselves to unusual last-minute efforts. President Truman dashed off a special letter of appeal; Secretary of State Byrnes cabled anxiously from Paris; from retirement old Cordell Hull added more arguments to the weight of pressure...
...fourth explosion of nature's fissionable elements, this time a precise, scientific evaluation of the bomb's destructive force applied to naval surface craft riding "dead duck" at close anchorage, three ships went down, a fourth was missing and 32 others were scorched, set afire or twisted in hull or superstructure...
...Malcolm Campbell, veteran auto-&-boat speedster, had a new ambition at 61. He proposed to raise the water speed record (141.74 m.p.h.) which he set with the Bluebird II in 1939. On an English lake next fall he will use the Bluebird's old hull with a brand-new jet engine...
...population (approx. 375,000). Memphis was the world's greatest cotton market, the hub of ten railroads, three airlines, and a big and busy river port. It had boomed during the war, and it was booming still. Better yet, it was running just the way Edward Hull Crump-the most absolute political boss in the U.S.-wanted...
Truman and Byrnes have not abandoned old Cordell Hull's faith that the sure cure for the world's economic ills lies in fewer & fewer trade barriers. But, like religion in an age of unbelief, the doctrine of free trade in an age of insecurity is hard to live by. In religion, the prime problem is the devil; in politics and economics it is, respectively, the world of power and the flesh...