Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these and other bits & pieces of fact began to fill in the pattern of Dennis' life, other TIME bureaus were put to work investigating the important new leads that kept turning up. In New York, Miss Finn turned up the exact address of Waldron-Dennis' stepmother in Southern California, where James Murray, of our Los Angeles bureau, located her. A tip from Washington (about a phony name Dennis had used on a passport) was relayed (with a picture of Dennis) to TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau, which turned up the story of his activities...
...enough (1,090 ft.) and roomy enough to be a base for 120 fighters or 24 medium-range bombers, the flush-decked United States had been blueprinted at $124 million. By last week, however, rising costs had boosted the Navy's own estimate to $188 million. Other estimates put the eventual cost at more than $500 million for the ship and the planes it would carry...
Lucrative Target. There was one other point that even Navy airmen found hard to dispute. No matter how successful the supercarrier was, one torpedo spread or a single bomb attack might put it out of action, and the United States would be the fattest target an enemy could wish...
...kept his campaign promise by submitting the bill. But, as he well knew, his compulsory insurance proposal -the only real issue in the bill-had little chance of passing in this session of Congress. Most critics thought the President's program was also unrealistic, because it put the cart before the horse. The nation's corps of 190,000 doctors, and the hospitals available to them, would have to be vastly expanded before they could cope with the millions entitled to care under the Truman program...
Then he made his men pull faster as soon as the Crimson shell hit some calm water in the last half mile. As Love put it, "He rowed a heady race...