Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interference. In Long Beach, Calif., the Rev. Ralph M. Grove called in engineers to help his hard-of-hearing parishioners : the church's newly installed earphones were picking up nothing but local police calls...
Armed Might. In Highland Park, Mich., police arrested Francis Vivian and took away his arsenal: a long-bladed knife, a blackjack, bow & arrows...
...Communist program for American labor is a program of destruction," he said. The leaders of a small percentage of the C.I.O., men pledged to "harassment, opposition and obstructionism," subscribe to that program. "They reject our basic policies; they flout the wishes of the majority. No self-respecting organization can long tolerate this dangerous division . . . The majority has the inherent right to protect its course of action and its future stability...
...extra allowance which Congress had voted for the Air Force could wreck the internal balance of the defense family, said the President, and it might wreck the balance he had long sought between military security and the strain on the domestic economy. It wasn't so much the down payment, he went on, it was the upkeep. In succeeding years the extra planes would demand a larger & larger share of the budget as they required personnel, housekeeping and maintenance. "I am, therefore, directing the Secretary of Defense to place [the $615 million] in reserve," the President announced...
...original nuggets be sent to Fairbanks to be tested. Next day a plane brought copies of the Fairbanks News-Miner with a sad story. All but two of the nuggets were brass. And the two (total worth: $2) were worn, as if they had been carried for a long time in a poke or pocket...