Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social "philosophy" of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Boston was still Boston. Its church steeples still stood unchallenged by tall buildings. Beacon Hill's decorous cascade of red brick houses still defied time and modern architects. The lion and unicorn of England, which revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s, still stood atop the old State House...
...coal to produce steel to produce coal to produce steel, still no incentive or hope for miners who daily see Allied reparations teams earmarking plants for removal. The situation in the Ruhr just doesn't change and it can't change any more than a man can pull himself up by his own bootstraps, particularly if you take away the bootstraps...
...pronouncement,by a governor of the Federal Reserve, which administers Regulation W under Executive Order, could have been more pleasing to the Morris Planners, whose prime business is consumer loans. But how much weight did affable Jake Vardaman pull on the board...
Isotope Rush. One group of Oak Ridge scientists is already doing a growing business in radioactive isotopes. Every week, with elaborate precaution, they pull a lead plug from a hole in the massive concrete shield around the Clinton pile. Out comes a graphite bar studded with little aluminum cans of chemicals which have been exposed to the storm of neutrons raging inside the pile. These contain the isotopes for which the world of science is clamoring. Sealed in heavy lead shipping cases, they are rushed to hospitals and research laboratories...
...short, U.S. moppets will have almost everything. Items: streamlined baby strollers; aluminum jeeps and station wagons; helicopters; stuffed spaniels that glow in the dark; toy sinks with running water; model kits to make prefabricated houses; dump trucks; and an electrical gun that throws pictures on the wall with each pull of the trigger. For the first time in six years, Germany will ship some $250,000 worth of music boxes, harmonicas, mohair deers, whiz-bang racing cars...