Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week came a shock as profound as if the sun had suddenly gone into unexpected eclipse. In a third of the nation men & women of the great American automobile age awoke to find they could no longer buy gasoline. The automobiles in which they rode to work and pleasure, to school and market, were nearly as obsolete as a dinosaur...
...upon to appropriate $141 billion for war ($222 billion since mid-1940). Congress did, the while it filibustered over the right of Southern States to charge a man $1 to vote. Congress voted a Navy big enough to rule the seven seas; before Pearl Harbor its isolationist horsemen almost rode into defeat the President's request to put cannon on merchant ships. Suspicious of U.S. allies, Congressmen haggled over Lend-Lease; yet last week they could see the magnificent results of that policy...
...Negroes stirred restlessly on their wooden chairs in Harlem's huge Golden Gate Ballroom. The white-robed, white-gloved, white-carnationed Negro choir on the gold-&-blue velveted stage let go with Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The pianist took off. The congregation began to clap to. the beat. The clarinet rode away from the melody. A little old Negro woman, her wrinkled neck twitching like a cock's comb, sprang into the air and screamed. All over "the auditorium black heads bobbed ecstatically as if mounted on pogo sticks. From the stage rose the voice of the evangelist...
Turned over to Chicago's war scrap pile were three and, a quarter tons of armored limousine-the rolling fortress in which once rode Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. To Philadelphia's scrap collection Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy widow of the Morgan partner, gave a high-grade steel fence that ringed the Stotesbury Whitemarsh Hall estate. Height of the fence: eight feet. Length: nearly two miles. Content: enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns...
MOSCOW--Russian armies rode roughshed over stubborn German resistance in the Stalingrad area and northwest of Moscow yesterday, capturing several localities and killing more than 7,000 Axis troops, the Soviet High Command announced today...