Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already transferred without factory drafting. Specifically, he predicted that the "redundant" cotton-textile industry would furnish 50,000 workers, the woolen-textile industry 40,000. The proposal raised many carefully muffled objections from factory owners. How would the pools work? Wouldn't the "nucleus" factories have a decided jump on the others when peace came? Wasn't it all Fascistic? But the average Briton-on-the-street was encouraged. Though he may have no detailed notions on the subject of public v. private control, he is fervently committed to the idea that private property as well as persons...
...road crosses the course. Chief hazard, however, is the "Big Corkscrew"-five great curves down a 34-degree slope through a glade 50 feet wide. Those who take it in tight curves close to the centre line pick up so much speed that they have no choice but to jump the abandoned road at the bottom...
...bourgeoisie.") On the convention's opening day, he delivered it with gestures, eloquently declared that the Avila Camacho regime was only a "modification in details" of Cárdenas' program. Equally eloquent was the inference that Lombardo, noted for his political agility, was leaving himself free to jump left or right...
...Nine O'clock Jump...
...Nine O'clock Jump...