Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconstruction of the children [of Europe and Asia] is more precious than factories and bridges. For they will determine the good or evil future of Europe. ... If every source of supply [is] scraped to the bottom of the barrel, we can pull the world through this most dangerous crisis...
...Pinch. The main goal was to pull off farms and out of elevators about one-third of the nation's storage of 375,000,000 bushels of wheat and to get it on the way to famine-threatened areas in the next three months. Would these measures at last bring out the wheat and other grains? The next two weeks might supply the answer. Grain men generally believed that farmers would release supplies slowly, but the 30? incentive would bring out an increasing supply...
Chungking spokesmen conceded that the great city of Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already...
...Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...
...pays the freight? The U.S. taxpayer, through the Department of Agriculture, which makes parity payments in cash (i.e., subsidies) whenever the combination of loans and marketing quotas fails to pull farm prices up to parity...