Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopkins strategy was simple. Delay seemed to be growing dangerous, so, immediately after Barkley had read the Roosevelt message freeing his delegates, a mammoth demonstration would be staged, an ecstatic delegate primed to seize the microphone and move the nomination by acclamation, and the trick would be turned in the most convincing manner possible...
...Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern, George Washington Crile of Cleveland. While his guests lit their cigars and settled back in their chairs, the doors to the dining hall opened wide and in trooped 50 of Dr. Lahey's friends, bearing a mammoth birthday cake, lavishly decorated with sugar paintings of Dr. & Mrs. Lahey playing golf, Dr. Lahey performing an operation, Dr. Lahey's pedigreed pointers and setters (he is an ardent hunter), an assortment of trains and airships to symbolize his wide travels...
Like a zoo, the mammoth Main Hall (where engineers have installed an anti-museum-fatigue invention: two pyramid-like seats topped by Beniamino Bufano's sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers...
...possessions are menaced by greedy giants on the warpath and her defense forces are limited to 165,000 soldiers and 35 small warships, but she called upon her colonies throughout the world to join in a mammoth pageant of peace and progress which she hopes will continue for the next six months...
...against Secretary Morgen thau, who hates The Cork's guts. Messrs, Jones & Corcoran had sought control through vast RFC loans to the air industry; Mr. Morgenthau contended there were no bottlenecks within the industry, there was no bottle. He wanted a new aviation industry, set up on a mammoth scale, and the President agreed with...