Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters in Wisconsin will swarm to polling-booths in a Presidential primary, will then & there settle the political hash of GOPresumptives Arthur Vandenberg or Thomas E. Dewey. Senator La Follette last week had become "Good Old Bob," a man whom many new friends were trying to influence. Representing a rock-bottom (1938) legion of 353,000 Progressive voters in a wide-open primary, his nod might mean the difference between success & failure to hundreds of big & little shots...
...France. If a more intensified Sitzkrieg were on the books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership of Hardware Man Chamberlain...
...wide, sunk 30 ft. into the earth, its walls 6 ft. thick and impervious to heaviest shell fire, is not invulnerable. It must somehow be anchored. When repeated high-explosive blasts have blown the earth off its top and away from its footings, further blasts may get under and rock the blockhouse bodily, tilt it out of alignment so that its guns within-carefully adjusted to cover precisely plotted areas of fire-can no longer be trained where they are needed...
...depression-reared company turned in a record net of $1,816,471 on $7,731,325 gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau when he went home from revival...
...small town U. S. family, named Hardy, whose ups and downs were intended to rouse no deeper emotion in theatre-goers than a tender smile through a film of happy tears. MGM proposed to turn Skidding, with title changed to A Family Affair, into a picture on a rock-bottom budget of less than...