Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, February 20--The Republican - controlled House sailed through a party line roll-call vote of 239 to 159 today to limit spending in the next fiscal year to $31,500,000,000, instead of following President Truman's minimum estimate...
...Daily, a most reliable motion-picture trade publication, lists the selections of 559 critics and commentators throughout the country. Only one foreign film (Henry V) was chosen for the "ten best" list, and only three importations (Caesar and Cleopatra, The Seventh Veil, Blithe Spirit) were cited on the honor roll of 51 pictures...
...from grandfather's roll top. But it was a desk, all right. There was even space where a man could do some work. But Gunn Furniture Co.'s desk-of-tomorrow (improved version) had other virtues; and visitors to the eighth annual office-equipment display in Chicago last week rightfully gaped at them...
...neglect the executive's helpers. On display at the same Chicago show last week was a new automatic typewriter-a gadget which makes up business letters from numerous combinations of recorded sentences (e.g., "yours of the tenth inst. rec'd."). The canned prose is recorded on a roll (something like grandfather's player piano), the roll is inserted in the machine, buttons are pressed for the desired combination, and the machine automatically types them into a letter. Price for this wonder...
Problems of the "Jews and the Arabs in Palestine" and of conflicting Big Three interests come up for discussion in "The United States and the Near East" by former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles '13 and Donald C. McKay, professor of History, one of the volumes to roll of the University press this spring...