Word: pent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was another changing circumstance too. When the pent-up hunger for hard goods created by World War II was finally sated, many U.S. manufacturers found themselves stuck with slackened production lines, and to keep their plants busy abandoned their insistence on Fair Trade pricing of their products in order to get the discounters' fat orders. At that point, the old-line department stores decided that they had to do more than jeer at the discounters. No longer could a discounter send his customers over to a department store for free demonstration of an appliance or to a music...
...machinery firm that Ontario Farmer Daniel Massey founded in 1847- grew with the U.S. and Canadian West, scored a major competitive triumph in 1939 by producing the first self-propelled combine. In the lush years just after World War II. it made fat profits on the strength of pent-up demand for farm equipment, but as demand shrank, it piled up a $182 million inventory of unsold machines...
...does not get so close to the real Jonathan as did Rol Maxwell in the Cambridge production. Dressed in the white of innocence, Pendleton enters with a buck-teeth smile, horn-rimmed glasses, and short pants. This is all very well, but his demeanor does not convey the pent-up pressure that will later burst into deeds of violence. In this Jonathan's makeup there is too much Little Lord Fauntleroy and too little James Dean...
...Milan, bumped his head on a wooden scaffolding. This, in Da Vinci style, led him to develop the lightweight steel scaffolds now standard the world over. After the war, he bent his tubes into a motor scooter frame and, with his Lambretta, rode the crest of Italy's pent-up demand for cheap transportation. Next, spotting Italian industry's growing need for tools, he began producing heavy machinery and giant electric steelmaking furnaces. Recently, to keep up with the middle-class Italian's desire to graduate from two-wheeled transportation to four. Ferdinando, with his son, Luigi...
Mussells stressed that the Peter Pent project is only a "temporary move while the Complex is being completed" and will "in no way delay or otherwise affect" the long-range plans...