Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Floods, No Smog. The air had been fairly well cleared of smoke-Pittsburghers were sharply aware of that. There was 39% more sunlight: a white shirt could be worn decently a whole day. Locomotives were allowed by law to give off nothing worse than No. 2 smoke (not as...
This helped get him an ornate nickname: "The Darling of the Gods." But it didn't strain his expanding fortune. In 1921 he and three oilmen, including flamboyant Harry F. Sinclair, founded the Continental Trading Co., a Canadian corporation. Through Continental, the quartet bought more than twelve million barrels...
The Veterans Administration last week added up its postwar payments to 15,200,000 World War II veterans, their heirs and dependents. The total: a skyscraping $20,975,947,214. Biggest expenditure-more than $7 billion-went for education under the G.I. bill. Pensions or compensation cost $4,502,364...
An Ominous Specific. From Moscow came the most remarkable reaction of all. For more than 24 hours after President Truman's announcement, the Russians maintained silence. Then Tass released a deadpan communiqué deploring the "alarm among broad social circles" which the Washington news had caused. Tass suggested that...
Russia stood to gain from her atom bomb if it scared Europe's people into clamoring for appeasement of Communism, but the West itself stood to gain more: a new clarity of common purpose. The atom bomb in Russian hands was something so ominously specific that it was almost...