Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veterans' pension bills can be killed but, like old soldiers, they never die. Last week the mammoth of all pension schemes, killed by the Senate Finance Committee last year, was back again, as healthy and hungry as ever...
Bituminous production dropped an estimated 1,500,000 tons a day. By week's end, Carnegie-Illinois reported that the mammoth coal pile at its Clairton byproducts plant had shrunk to 200,000 tons, enough for only six days of operation. Shut for want of coke was the hot-strip mill at U.S. Steel's modern Irvin works. One by one, in the nation's industrial center, open hearths were banked...
...request, Congress was told last week how to save two billion dollars, but Congress did not like the recipe. Just before Congress passed the mammoth 1941 Revenue Act, adding $3,553,000,000 to the nation's taxes, Virginia's apple-cheeked, apple-growing Senator Harry Flood Byrd tacked on an amendment. The amendment directed Budget Director Harold D. Smith before Oct. 15 to show a joint committee of both houses how the Administration could save (in non-defense expenditures): i) a billion dollars; 2) a billion and a half; 3) two billion dollars...
...Middies and the Crimson are acknowledged to have the best forward bulwarks in the recent history of the two institutions. When the cannonading starts at 2 o'clock the Blue and Gold wall will be complete from stem to stern, including 250 pound Gene Flathmann who is to mammoth Vern Miller what the Tyranausourous Rex was to the mastodon...
Last week Philadelphia revived Benjamin Franklin's famed Junto, 174 years dead. The sight would have startled old Ben; the cozy little study club he founded in a tavern with eleven convivial companions in 1727 has a mammoth reincarnation. Two thousand Philadelphians trooped into the Academy of Music for the new Junto's first meeting, and at week's end fresh hordes were still coming. It was the biggest cultural revival in many a Philadelphia year...