Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, President for four months, still got a thrill out of great events and his part in them. The bright hazel eyes of the plain man from Missouri raced across and down the yellow page...
...world ready for the new step forward? It was never ready. It was, in fact, still fumbling for the answers to the age of steam and electricity. The kindly physicists handed plain people (like Harry Truman and Clement Attlee) the fissioned atom,.and said: You have to decide who owns it; who can kill whom with it, and under what circumstances. How fast is it to be developed? Certainly, it will change the world. You have to make laws...
...plain people (like Harry Truman and Clement Attlee) did not understand and control it, who would...
...letter of regret, U.S. Steel President Benjamin F. Fairless made it plain why Big Steel 'was abandoning the war baby it had built for the Government in 1941. Prime reason was a provision in the Surplus Property Act which provides that Government metals plants costing more than $5,000,000 may not be lease;! for more than five years, nor leased with an option to buy. A five-year lease was not good enough for U.S. Steel for two reasons: 1) Geneva is still an unsettled financial property-to make Geneva a postwar moneymaker will take about $70 million...
Mohammed. "I stayed at the Waldorf, and we went to nightclubs, shows, on boat rides, and even to Coney Island. I loved every minute of it, and especially the times when we could slip away from the Prince's bodyguard. But as for romance, that's just plain silly. He was attracted to me because I can speak Arabic. . . ." The Prince, mindful of his one wife and six children in Saudi Arabia, said that he did not remember Mary Mohammed. He then departed for England and home...