Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact remained that 1) British censors were deciding what Balkan news was fit for U.S. eyes to read; 2) Kent Cooper was fighting mad about...
...Forces. His orders had been to procure and ship more than 100,000 items needed for the Army's pre-invasion stockpile, from shoelaces to tanks. By last week all but 79 of the items were stockpiled where they belonged. The rest were on the way and the mad supply rush was easing...
...farmers, reported the Department of Agriculture, paid off $467 million of their mortgage debt last year. This left their total mortgage debt at $5.6 billion, lowest figure in 27 years, 48% under 1923's peak. Few farmers have forgotten their mad scramble for more land at any price during World War I, followed by the collapse of the farm boom in 1922. When the topheavy mortgage structure crashed during the Depression, 85,000 farmers were wiped out by foreclosure. Now land values are creeping upward again as farm income soars to an alltime high. But the farmers will...
Francis Biddle seemed to welcome this question. He smiled: "Well, I'll tell you something. He got pretty mad when I said he had to go. Then the blood came to his face and he said to me, 'You New Dealer...
...guys fired like mad. On the first pass we bagged 14 fighters. They were so thick all we had to do was fire in practically any direction. They swept around front again and made two more passes. . . . When I looked around, I was the only one left in the formation. I was sure scared to death...