Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even these were thin, sour wines alongside the full-blown, fabulously rich year of 1944. The cold figures, such as the gross national product of $196 billion, were almost too big to grasp. The significant fact of the year was that the U.S. could pour out some $90 billion for war, and another $100 billion for consumer goods and services (see chart...
...wonder is not that an occasional piece of copy or film gets stuck in the censorship filter, but that so much news gets through as swiftly as it does. Into the filter the 800 correspondents accredited to SHAEF, plus numerous unaccredited correspondents in Britain, now pour every week approximately 3,000,000 words, 35,000 still pictures, 100,000 feet of movie film...
...travel was perilous. General de Gaulle and fellow travelers (among them: Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin) chafed, killed time at the Azerbaijan Opera House, then caught a train for Stalingrad. There the General watched steel pour from the furnaces of the Red October Metal Plant (now restored to 60% of former production), tractors roll from the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Works. General de Gaulle presented the "Homage of France" and the bronze plaque in memory of Stalingrad's defense to the city...
...many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned...
Cheyenne found out about Nubbins when his father went looking for a Christmas tree. Within a week's time, newspaper readers across the land were looking at pictures of the thin, flannel-clad child with solemn brown eyes. Then the gifts began to pour...