Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It had been a gamble. To win its objective, the C.I.O. had called, or threatened to call, strikes of some 1,500,000 workers. Meanwhile Phil Murray's adversaries, President Bill Green of the A.F. of L. and John Lewis of the Mine Workers, sat on the sidelines, waiting...
Up spoke Lieut. Colonel Henry T. Myers of the Air Transport Command, pilot of the Sacred Cow and final judge of when she can venture out. Pointing out that the presidential C-54 has greater power, range and operating ceiling than ordinary commercial airliners, Colonel Myers said the flight was...
At week's end French prices (black market and legitimate) seemed stable. But the 150,000 U.S. troops still in France fluttered in a profit-taking frenzy. They held some 420,000,000 francs for which they could get 1,000,000,000. No one was sure who would...
In 1902, when the late Paul Klee was 23 and a promising Swiss painter, he decided to start all over again. "I want to be as though newborn," he wrote in his journal, "knowing nothing about Europe...." Part of his new birth was to unlearn all the techniques he had...
Pick When Ripe. For 5 ft. 3 Stan Lipiec (he buys his clothes in the boys' department) life began at 14, when he skipped school and took to the turf. As a fourth-rate jockey in Cuba (he still gallops his nags mornings), he learned what makes a horse...