Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least of all Mrs. Mullane, who is a ruddy-faced, unassuming Staten Island housewife, had any idea that the request would bring a deluge of 210,000 letters, 315,000 pennies and assorted small change. The pennies started to pour in on Sunday morning after the broadcast. Children pushed them under the door. All day friends dropped in to make contributions...
...Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife gets water from the kitchen faucet. And the spigot will pour forth 300,000 barrels a day (more than one-fifth of the need of the Eastern area...
...Kaiser's Pour le Mérite and Order of the Iron Cross First Class; Hitler's Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross; Bulgaria's Order of St. Alexander; Yugoslavia's Order of the White Eagle; Luxembourg's Order of Adolphus of Nassau; Greece's Royal Order of the Redeemer; Italy's Order of St. Maurice & St. Lazare; Hungary's Cross of Merit; Finland's Order of the White Rose; Sweden's Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword; Denmark's Order of the Dannebrog...
...central control needed to drive manpower out of services into war production, to bring the civilian economy back into control is, of course, fiscal policy. Yet fiscal policy is precisely the Achilles heel of the whole war effort. In fiscal 1943 the U.S. Treasury will probably pour out $80 billions in expenditures, take in only $21 billions. In the next fiscal year it will be as bad. Yet even these figures are deceptive. For the taxes which the Congress imposed upon the country have little to do with the curbing of civilian demand. In large part they consisted...
...There are lots of pet theories, but none of them quite covers "Candle In The Wind," "Eve Of St. Mark," "Letters To Lucerne," "Plan M"; none of them can explain away "Heart Of The City," "The Moon Is Down," "The Morning Star," "The Wookey,"--et cetera, ad infinitum, strictement pour les oiseaux...