Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Converting plain water into heavy water...
Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot. Even though British law has made the gangster's profession a precarious one in this country, still we do know the difference between bulletproof glass and unshatterable or safety glass, with which latter the Royal car and many others in Canada are equipped. Your insistence upon this entirely fictitious bullet-proof glass is one of the most odious insinuations you could suggest against a loyal people...
...Home Consumption. Through most of this williwaw, one man who kept his head screwed on was MBS's Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, an oracle in England because he speaks plain English in weekly BBC broadcasts from the U. S. to 1,000,000 British homes. Officially summing up for the BBC on Saturday, Commentator Swing told Great Britain...
...orders will not help materially to up the rate of production in the steel industry. Until the ways are free to begin building, steel will not be wanted. When it is wanted-about 50,000 tons of plain steel and 34,000 tons of armor plate for the 24 ships-it will be only a drop in the ocean. As a market for steel, shipbuilding is a bottleneck due to limited capacity. In 1938, operating at the highest rate since the War, the industry was able to use slightly over 300,000 tons of steel, about...
...With its blessing on sponsored shortwave broadcasts, FCC slipped in a proviso that: "A licensee of an international broadcast station shall render only an international broadcast service which will . . . promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...