Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Connally of Texas jumped up to cry: "I think Congress should stay right here in Washington until all the visible dangers of involvement of the United States in foreign war may be removed...
...Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave a flat 10% or 5% from all items in the House's $835,000,000 Agriculture supply bill, the committee shied. Such a move might be all right, they said, if applied by the whole Senate to each & every supply bill regardless, but to single out Agriculture for such treatment struck them as unfair and politically unwise,† Not only that, but the committeemen jeopardized all economizing to date by voting into the bill $378,000,000 more...
...request." The Commissar, it was explained later, was ill, had been suffering from heart disease. His job would henceforth be taken by Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, President of the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, right-hand man to Dictator Joseph Stalin for some 15 years...
...engine cowling which can be used in 500-mile-an-hour airplanes. Cowlings of present design work all right at speeds under 325 m.p.h., but wind-tunnel tests show they cause a "compressibility burble" (violent eddy) above that speed, set up so much resistance that doubling or tripling engine horsepower adds no speed...
...shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock held as collateral for their $2,375,000 note, thus revesting to the foundation ownership of such stock." Muncie's spare, bald, 76-year-old George A. Ball was once again master of the 23,000 miles of right...