Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principal battles, to be sure, Democratic victories were predictable. Unpredicted, however, was the way they won against frequently paper-thin Republican opposition. In New York City, Mayor Robert Wagner crushed G.O.P. Opponent Robert Christenberry by a plurality just under the 1,000,000 that Tammany Boss Carmine DeSapio had predicted for him, catching new votes in long-standing Republican counties. In New York State, for the first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican...
...land reform drastically cut farm output, and nationalization of the tin companies boomeranged as production slipped from 33,664 tons in 1951 to 27,435 in 1956. With fewer goods than before to pay for these social advances, Bolivia in a single year more than tripled the amount of paper money in circulation...
...press briefings punctuated by countless queries from individual newsmen. Since she does not have Hagerty's firsthand knowledge of top-level decisions, the answers often involved some digging, as well as canny hedging in a time of rapidly shifting events. By week's end a lot of paper had flowed through the mimeograph, but Annie still looked fresh, good-humored and full of bounce...
...varies, the detector's reading changes, automatically sets off machinery to adjust the rubber flow. Today all the major rubber companies use these "AccuRay" gauges at a saving of $20 million annually. With similar apparatus rolling mills can control the thickness of steel, and the manufacturers of aluminum, paper, plastics, glass, cigarettes use isotope gauges to police the quality, thickness and density of their products...
Published and distributed by the CRIMSON, the paper's five-column headline declared, "PRINCETON FOOTBALL STARS MAUL 16-YEAR-OLD YOUTH." By noon, 4,000 copies of the parody had been distributed to the crowd which awaited the Yale-Princeton football game...