Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crude oil and other petroleum products make up 75% of the river's cargo. Most of it is upriver, and the oil barges return empty; rivermen are now talking of building oil barges with return-trip deck space for autos. The rest of the traffic is in other bulk products which do not have to be moved rapidly. Downriver, Pittsburgh and Chicago ship steel, the Twin Cities grain. Upriver come cotton, sulphur and scrap from the South, coffee and sisal from Latin America...
...congressional committee of a onetime U.S. Communist, who declared that she had been bribed and decorated by Moscow for spying on the U.S. while the two countries were wartime allies. In London, a handful of Czech and Hungarian athletes expressed their feeling for their conqueror by refusing to return home after the Olympics and seeking asylum in Britain...
...most sharply etched lesson of all was given in Manhattan by a dumpy little Russian schoolteacher who had been ordered to return to her homeland. Imprisoned by her countrymen, she decided that it was better to risk death instead...
...made no claim to staying power. Even if the drive could be organized on a nationwide scale, housewives were not at all sure that they had the answer. But they were sure that somebody should do something. Last spring a Gallup poll showed the public strongly opposed to the return of controls. Last week Gallup reported that the nation now favored, by an amazing 56% to 35%, restoration of both price controls and rationing of many retail products...
...valley and see the new moon set." Last week, in Seoul, Korea's aging new President Syngman Rhee made the same point with another proverb: "You cannot expect to lift a heavy stone without getting red in the face." His speech was part of a celebration of the return of national independence to two-thirds of Korea's 30 million people and one half of its land. In Seoul, the world's second largest bell* welcomed Tai Han Min Kook-the Republic of Korea. With General Douglas MacArthur in the reviewing stand, 10,000 soldiers marched past...