Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launched a year ago, he will almost indisputably soon be master of at least half the world. If they fail, the least that can be expected is that the tide of world power will begin to run against him as the weight of U.S. economic power begins to pour to the aid of Britain. For Hitler this spring is destiny...
...stop. The roustabouts, cat jockeys, bulldozers, greasers, welders, dynamiters, mixers, drillers, riggers, still pressed for time, worked on, unmindful of little ceremonies and speeches before movie cameras. With the precise delicacy of spider legs, the slender, giant cranes moved steadily on, lifting twelve-ton buckets of concrete to pour on the dam's western heights. "Dinky" skinners drove trains of concrete buckets over the sky-high trestle; tin-helmeted shove runners and gear-jammers, tools in their belts, plowed on with their job: to move 1,000,000 feet of dirt out of a slide area...
...supply light and power to the dam itself. The first Big Bertha -whose parts, weighing 2,367,000 pounds, took 38 freight cars to carry them - will start in midsummer, will produce 108,000 kilowatts. When it and others like it are all turning, they will be able to pour into transmission lines 2,700,000 h.p. - about one-twelfth of all the power now produced in the nation...
Greatest preparation of all was centred around the building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
...large part of any taxation increase (and might be thought even less eager than Congress to face it) this week have their say on the problem. Most important finding of the Forum is that 66.7% of Business favors higher taxes at once. If Congress was afraid to pour out the bad medicine, its No. 1 tax patient was asking...