Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will in the main be highly beneficial for Americans. Devaluation should increase sales and profits of many U.S. companies and create more jobs in industries concerned with foreign trade. The prospects: U.S. EXPORTS will drop in price around the world. The Boeing Co. figures that devaluations and revaluations could knock the equivalent of $2.5 million off the $25 million cost of a 747 jumbo jet to some foreign airlines. F.S. Holway, president of the Coal Exporters Association of the U.S., calculates that an 8% devaluation would have the same effect as a price cut from...
...midst of a quiet evening at his country home near the Northern Ireland town of Strabane, Senator John Barnhill, 65, a prosperous Protestant businessman, answered a knock at the door. He was shot dead by three members of the Irish Republican Army, who had crossed over the unguarded border from Eire a few hundred yards away. The gunmen then ordered Barnhill's wife out, placed a bomb near the body and blew up the house. Thus began another normal week in Ulster...
...highrise, low-rent housing projects in the 1950s. Built to literally lift the poor above the grime of slums, they instead deteriorated into vertical slums that now contribute so much to the congestion, isolation and ugliness of U.S. cities that urban planners often must wish that they could just knock them down and start over from scratch. St. Louis will soon do just that...
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...some of the diary aloud. It had first been published in 1946-but 25 years later, his voice gave his words a special poignancy: "At 0730 we loaded. The bomb is now alive and it's a funny feeling knowing it's right in back of you. Knock wood . . . We started our climb to 30,000 feet at 0740. Well, folks, it's not long now." As the B-29 let the Bomb go: "For the next minute no one knew what would happen. The bombardier and the right seat jockey or pilot both forgot...