Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admirers of glib, arm-flailing Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, 31, swear his voice can penetrate a case-hardened conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
...press conferences, parts of them off-the-record and now published for the first time. Roosevelt would receive the reporters with easy informality-joking about their having had to be fingerprinted, or chortling with glee ("You stepped right into it") when a reporter asked if a large pile of papers, which turned out to be pardons, was for the press. But when the reporters began to dig into ticklish subjects, F.D.R. could be chilly, huffy or schoolmasterish. Once he told them: "Now mind you, it is not important for the people to know whether my left eyebrow is raised...
...works and pomps which Glenn McCarthy has raised in honor of McCarthy have taken a more solid form. There is McCarthy's Houston mansion, a white-pillared, $700,000 pile surrounded by vast lawns and trees bearded with Spanish moss. There is the 15,000-acre ranch on which he admires his blooded cattle and occasionally shoots deer, goats and turkeys. There is McCarthy's Colosadium (so far, only on paper), a 110,000-seat stadium for Houston with a sliding roof in case of rain. There are McCarthy's airplanes, which include a four-engined Boeing...
...priming, and deflation. Pump-primers wanted the government to spend part of the reserve in the Bank Deutscher Länder (similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve) for critically needed housing, and thus re-employ hundreds of thousands of construction workers. The other solution was to let the goods pile up on shelves until prices dropped to the point where customers could buy more. But the trade associations refused to let prices follow the law of supply & demand...
...ingredient tritium (hydrogen 3) is radioactive and is excessively rare in nature, but it is not hard to make. One method is to bombard lithium 6 with neutrons in a uranium pile. The reaction yields tritium and helium, which can be separated by simple chemistry. This job could be done in the plutonium-making piles at Hanford, but probably will be done in a special pile built without difficulty for the purpose...