Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would be shifted; violent quakes would rack the earth as the Antarctic was relieved of ten quadrillion tons of ice which have depressed its land level some 600 feet...
...summer of 1943 the ceiling price on corn was so low and the price floor on hogs so high that it was more profitable to use corn to fatten pigs than to sell it. Result: a large hog population, but no pork on the butcher's rack and an acute shortage of feed for Eastern dairy cows.) Weather Means Everything. With farm groups last week - at Omaha, Min neapolis, Yakima, Wash. - Anderson made a highly favorable, sense-making impression, discussing how to work out a sys tem of price relationships that would provide incentives for the production of grain...
Last week came old Vienna's turn on the Nazi torture rack. The Germans had willed that the city of 2,000,000 Austrians should die as Budapest had died - slowly, to gain a little more time for Naziism. But this week it seemed that the Red Army would foil that murder by swift conquest. Vienna might escape death, though it would be gravely wounded...
...Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...
...took a crash ax, doffed his parachute, perched on the narrow catwalk of the bomb bay and started knocking the bombs loose. As the last one dropped away, Gibbens skidded on the leaking hydraulic fluid and fell. With a frantic, one-handed clutch he caught hold of a bomb rack, slowly and painfully pulled himself back to safety as other crewmen came up to help...