Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep as the pile of a Templeton carpet are two secrets: where the Cabinet shelter is, where the bombed-out House of Commons is now quartered...
...been within 350 miles of Japanese airfields. The Road is peculiarly vulnerable: it passes over two bridges slung precariously in gorges of the Mekong and Salween Rivers, and as it winds around the shoulders of huge hills it is as easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers, and to the amazing Chinese capacity for regeneration. Thousands of coolies mend steel bridges with bamboo and rope, fill craters and landslides with little basketfuls of dirt...
...swarm of food speculators who sell them illegal supplies when normal stocks are gone, thereafter force them to go on doing business with them or be handed over to the police. Although retailers are licensed, wholesalers are not; as many as ten middlemen in some cases may pile up their profits in the dark. The London Daily Herald has unearthed a nest of "speakeasy" restaurants dealing in illicit food supplies...
...National Defense Mediation Board this week threw up its hands and for the first time admitted defeat. It had shattered its shining lance on a pile of coal. For nearly a month, while operators and miners wrangled, virtually no soft coal had been mined. Emergency supplies had dwindled by the hour, while steelmakers, munition makers, shipbuilders cursed. "Criminal" was the word OPM's angry William Knudsen used two weeks ago to describe any stoppage in the defense program. Shocking, at least, were the figures which showed what had happened as the result of the stoppage in coal...
Later, the Senator expressed the belief that, if we enter the war, we will pile up a debt of 200 billion dollars. "As a result, there will be a drastic inflation after...