Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cases it was caused, not by a catastrophic drop in business, but by a laudable desire to pay off the old mortgage, i.e., the money spent to expand facilities during the war. When the war ended, companies stopped paying for their plants in installments, charged them off in a lump sum. As most of the cash would have gone to the Government anyway in taxes, this cost them comparatively little. But it lowered profits...
General McClure ran his show from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...
...Neck. In Fruita, Colo., an illustrative marvel took place. A farmer chopped off the head of a rooster named Mike. He missed Mike's jugular vein and a lump of tissue at the top of his neck that controlled Mike's motor impulses...
...gone for good, Mr. Riderhood, it would be something to know where you are hiding at present. This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. If you are gone for good, Rogue, it is very solemn, and if you are coming back, it is hardly less so. Nay, in the suspense and mystery of the latter question, involving that of where you may be now, there is a solemnity even added to that of death, making us who are in attendance alike afraid to look...
...anxiously wondered how long the secret could or would be kept. The Smyth report, released by the U.S. War Department (TIME, Aug. 20), had been amazingly frank about production methods. It even hinted at the basic mechanism of the bomb itself-the sudden bringing together of two or more lumps of explosive material to form one lump which is over the "critical size" and which instantly explodes. The possibility that the secret might be discovered by some other nation creates no immediate dangers, because at this stage of the bomb's development huge production plants (which exist...