Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week that problem had not yet arisen. Like a cornucopia with a conscience, the U. S. prepared to pour out aid to the victims of war. But never before had U. S. relief had to cope with lightning war. Before a relief fund was raised and a relief ship chartered, the country for which the help was destined might be wiped off the map, the very port to which a relief ship was sent might be in ruins or out-of-bounds in a war zone...
...Sumatra plantation. They found they had a common dream: enough U. S.-owned plantations to smash the Dutch-British rubber monopoly. Before they could do much about it, Rubberman Davis left U. S. Rubber Co. with a $2,000,000 fortune, which he proceeded to give away and to pour down a series of dry holes in the oil country around Luling, Tex. A $57,000 loan from Friend Seiberling tided him over until his North & South Development Co. struck oil at a spot he was sure Divine Providence had picked for him. In 1926 he sold his oil properties...
...foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed to 1/600 its gaseous volume. Heated by steam, the liquid will again vaporize and go out through East Ohio's mains next winter...
...oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset, a bus missed, a kiss refused. But big things-the Battle of France, so many of the young men spilling that precious red wine into the soil-makes them cold, determined, grim, brave, calm and proud...
...side of the scales" you say: "we will be adding millions of men to the carnage; we will pour wealth and resources down the drain; we will be opening the doors to fascism internally which may destroy the very freedom that interventionists would have us go abroad to defend...