Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unions, the Government had found it difficult to promote a country-wide organization behind Dutra. Reasons: 1) state pride, 2) apathy toward dull Candidate Dutra, 3) the hot weather. But now that state governors were to fight for their own political lives on Dec. 2, they would have to roll up their sleeves, rally town mayors, dogcatchers and other local officials behind the Government cause...
...Russians knew that the cumber some mass of Russian arms could not roll far beyond Russia's borders. One-third of the Red Army was already demobilized (see FOREIGN NEWS), and millions more would soon be returning to farms and fac tories. Russia's prospects of expansion by world revolution had seldom been slim mer. All over Europe, men looked else where than toward Communism for a kind of security and dignity that their prewar systems had failed to insure them. In consequence the Communist parties, far from being all-powerful or irresistible, were on the defensive...
Inventor R. M. Hamilton started in a small way with the "Swiss Roll," a can-vas-and-wood pier to be carried, rolled up, on a ship's deck. During the Normandy invasion, trucks speeded over an unrolled roll to safety on the beach. Final flowering of the idea was Lily...
Because of the war, the first one did not roll out of Lockheed's Burbank, Calif, plant until late in 1942, and it was for the Army. The Army liked it so well that it ordered 270 more. But Hughes and Frye had a chance to test the bird they had hatched. In the spring of 1944 they flew a Constellation across the continent in six hours, 58 minutes; another flew from New York to Paris in 14 hours, twelve minutes for the Army's Air Transport Command...
Wheels & Runners. The Northrop Aircraft Inc., through its toymaking subsidiary Northrop-Gaines Inc., will roll out before Christmas 75,000 aluminum wagons, scooters, and a tricky combination-a toddler-tricycle. Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. started to make bicycle parts three months ago, will deliver a few bicycles in October. But it will be November before Murray Ohio and most other manufacturers begin mass production of velocipedes, tricycles, small automobiles and other wheeled toys. S. L. Allen & Co. was ready to make Flexible Flyer sleds again, believed it could turn out about 10% of its normal prewar production before snow flies...