Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooty Donora (pop. 13,500), it was particularly heavy; the hills stand close and no breath of breeze had reached its streets. The haze thickened as locomotives and the high stacks of U.S. Steel's huge Donora Zinc Works sent fumes into the still air. But nobody paid much attention to the smoke-laden mist. The zinc plant had been operating for more than 30 years and Donora has often...
...that the productivity of the world's cultivated land is falling now and is sure to fall even more because of erosion and exhaustion. The enormous crops that the U.S. raised this year, they say, are a cruel illusion; they were achieved by "soil mining," and will be paid for inexorably in future crop failures...
...soil men have little conclusive information. They know that many once fertile regions are in terrible shape, but they also know that a constant stream of admiring foreign visitors, from Latin America, India, China, the Near East, has come to learn U.S. methods. Last week even Soviet Russia paid the U.S. an unadmitted compliment. Crying loudly (in five pages of Pravda and five of Izvestia) that heedless and greedy capitalism cannot protect its soil, the Russians announced a conservation program (hardly started yet) that is almost an exact copy of what U.S. conservation has already achieved...
...Republican Senate dropped stone-cold dead in the electoral market three days ago, and nobody paid it much mind more exciting things were going on. Even before Tuesday, the GOP 51 to 45 Senatorial margin was pretty clearly in for a slice, if not obliteration. It was obliterated, all right, for not only did the Democratic Party hold all of its own seats, but it knocked off nine held by the Republicans. The new Senate line-up is a fat 54 to 42 for the President's party...
...locked the door and let it go at that. The door was, however, opened two or three times in the next twenty minutes. The first time someone suggested that the concert be relayed by amplifier to the large hall on the opposite side of the building. No attention was paid him. The second time he repeated his suggestion the yard cop said he would ask about it, came back in a minute and reported that it was impossible since no previous arrangements had been made...