Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal strike of 1943, said John L., Franklin Roosevelt "publicly kicked every coal miner in this country in the face." And, if he is reelected, he would do it again next April when the miners' contract comes up again, shouted John L. From the hall rose cries of "Pour...
...with the New. When will the new cars, refrigerators, radios begin to pour out? Said Krug confidently: "I know of one leading automobile manufacturer who figures he can be producing new cars approximately three months after Germany collapses...
...with the decline in civilian enthusiasm, veterans began to band together. For the first time in U.S. history "the soldier vote began to cast a long shadow athwart American politics." The Grand Army of the Republic became a major political force. Pension claims began to pour in-at first for war wounds and illness, later for postwar failure in health, finally for war service regardless of need. Claim agents combed the country. One statesman remarked that the G.A.R., having saved the country, now wanted...
Hope seemed chiefly propped up by secret weapons still to be revealed. There was a report of a fiery cloud, a secret gas to be released from planes. As it sank to the ground, other planes would pour incendiary bullets into the mass, turning it into a vast flaming blanket. Said the Vienna edition of the Volkischer Beobach-ter: "Our intention is to surprise the enemy with something absolutely new. Weeks or months may pass before the moment comes. These will be the hardest period of the war for us." Said 55 Writer Joachim Fernau: "Within six months all Germans...
...light primary Democrats polled a higher vote: 324,000 to 299,000. Both parties were torn by internal dissension; both now have a hot campaigner at the top of the ticket. Bob Hannegan and Harry Truman are sure to pour in all the money and speakers necessary for a thumping campaign; the Republicans likewise. (One reason for Tom Dewey's Governors' meeting in St. Louis was to pep up the Missouri G.O.P.) If Missouri is any barometer, and it has been a true one in the past 40 years, the 1944 Presidential election will be the closest since...