Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goodrich Co. reported that since the war the most popular size in rubber gloves has been 7½ instead of the prewar 8, which might indicate that U.S. hands are getting smaller...
This year's weather was as bad as any since the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. No rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...
Miners at the Brynhenllys mine in Wales struck for an even more trivial reason. There 300 men wildcatted because Will Rees was assigned a new pit pony, named "Britton," instead of his five-year favorite "Bomber." They returned to work only when Rees got Bomber back...
...Alamos, N.Mex., the atomic Forbidden City, the physicists described a gentle atom bomb. It contains enough "fissionable material" to vaporize its surroundings. But instead of exploding, it smolders as quietly as a furnace banked for the night...
...High brass found that it really preferred to ride the trains between Viareggio and Leghorn, instead of commuting in staff cars...