Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute-long nod to God-or to production in the ball-bearing works-was calculated to give the least offense to the smallest number. Even so, it barely got by. Out of 15 committee members only eight voted for it; the Soviet Union, France and two others abstained; three members had stayed away from the meeting...
...world is so full of a number of things...
...Lesser Cassandras, including New Dealers, have foretold the depletion of the world's oil and coal reserves, the exhaustion of soils, have pronounced the U.S. economy to be "mature," i.e., incapable of further expansion. Most of these experts offered some laws whereby, they held, a limited number of things could be fairly shared and regularly produced. They denied the possibility of burgeoning plenty; instead, they promised "stability...
Triple Play. The Italian venture is the most spectacular example of Coca-Cola's profitable global expansion. With more than 370 bottlers operating outside the U.S. at present, the company intends to triple that number within five years...
Sweets declared that he was the victim of a radio blacklist initiated by Counterattack, a weekly newsletter offering "facts to combat Communism." Counterattack's managing editor, ex-FBIman Theodore Kirkpatrick, answered Sweets by charging that the blacklist shoe was on the other foot, that he knew of "a number of instances" in which anti-Communist actors could not get radio jobs because the directors and producers were Communists or fellow travelers...