Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...softball games), and appearing three times a week on a radio program on which he invited voters to send him all their personal complaints. He hammered away at inflation, proposed a "voluntary" price-control plan. Governor Shannon still figured to win. Chester Bowles's ambition was to pile up a vote impressive enough to give him a share in taking over the receivership of the Democratic Party...
...atomic age, you can't be too careful about your neighbors. When an atomic pile is at work, it releases radioactive gases (invisible but deadly) that are sure to get around the neighborhood. This problem has been worrying Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is building a pile. It has also worried nervous Long Islanders who live near the laboratory...
When Brookhaven's pile begins to work, radioactive gases will be released, like the smoke, from the top of a tall stack. Since gas behaves about the same as smoke, the scientists will figure out in advance how to operate their pile safely-and how to keep its radioactive gases out of Long Island society...
...lying." The Rakosi expropriation began with a police raid. At around dinner time on Sept. 18, police entered the Budapest apartment of MAORT's president, Paul Ruedemann, and its director and technical adviser, George Bannantine. The two were taken to the forbidding grey stone pile at 60 Andrassy Ut which had once been headquarters for Hungary's branch of Hitler's Gestapo and is now used by the Hungarian version of the Soviet MVD. Three hours later questioning began...
...briskly with what looked like another success by prolific Terence Rattigan (The Winslow Boy, O Mistress Mine). Called Playbill, it was a program of two one-acters: The Browning Version, a study of an embittered schoolmaster, and A Harlequinade, which pokes fun at highbrow theater. Rattigan, whose annual royalties pile up to about $100,000, also has a new drama about Alexander the Great scheduled for a winter opening, and is working on a comedy...