Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-fed nation just beginning to pull in its belt after 19 months of war, there was still food aplenty. But it was at the wrong places, it was going to waste, it was being badly mismanaged...
...Annie) in 1931. After it was separated from NBC, the Blue got rid of its four sponsored soaps and looked around for something to replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors. If the Blue's survey was correct, the network undoubtedly had a case for its soapless policy. If not, it had at least made history by publishing a survey which did not try to prove that it was the best network...
...intense loyalty of Bennett and Sorensen there can be no question. But as to how they will pull together - with Edsel gone - there is doubt. The empire has long been split into two warring kingdoms, with Bennett ruling one, Sorensen the other. Edsel Ford gave his tacit support to Sorensen, counteracting the tremendous influence Bennett has with Henry Ford. The scales are now tipped far the other way. This Tuesday Bennett was made a director (Sorensen was one already) at the same time that Edsel's widow and three other executives were added to the board. But Henry Ford...
...could and lightened her as much as possible. On the shore, some 200 yards away, winches were anchored in the ground and from them steel cables were strung across the water and fixed to clamps fastened along the Oklahoma's bottom. The winches turned, the cables began to pull, and very gradually, inch by inch, the big ship rolled. Week after week the process went on. The clamps were moved up the ship's hull to get a higher pull. Her topsides appeared. She lifted her muck-covered head out of the water, until the cables could...
...paid for six months ... He tole them to get in line ... Things certainly were picking up ... Next he was notified there were three dead bodies below with their transfer pay accounts. Next came three wives who claimed their husbands were on Skmc because of their own misconduct ... Ensign Drawers pulled out a special desk for them to sit on and first with the new pay clerk who had just flunked out of the Harvard supply school ... Ensign Drawers couldn't find anything in his specimens as to how to do six different things at the same time. The C. O.ordered...