Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually, with the scientific methods which have made mass destruction reach appalling proportions, war has ceased to be a sort of the roll-of-the-dice to determine . . . which should be the winner and dictate the terms. It has become an all-out effort. It has involved every man, child and woman in the whole world ... It is inherently a failure now. The last two wars have shown it. The victor had to carry the defeated on his back ... If you have another world war you are going to get such destruction and destructiveness [that]-I think...
...mind for farm parity. He didn't want to freeze parity, as labor unions and consumer outfits were urging him to do. Instead, he proposed that farm prices be stabilized" by calculating parity only once each marketing season rather than monthly as at present. "It won't roll back any prices," said one White House adviser. "All it does is to simplify enforcement of prices already under control." The plan caused an immediate flurry of opposition from farm-state Congressmen, but the Administration thought that the protests were just for the record and that farm groups weren...
Price officials glibly estimated that their day's work would roll beef prices back to pre-Korea levels, save housewives an estimated $700 million a year. Lower prices should be seen in butcher shops by Aug. 1, they said, and by Oct. 1 beef should be down about 10? a Ib. In New York and other cities, beef prices are the highest they have ever been, and there is also a shortage of beef, although the U.S. cattle population is 2% to 3% higher than last year. Di Salle's men said that even after they had rolled...
...court reversed the judgment, held that neither Piggy nor Puppy could be patented. In so ruling, it referred to another decision which blasted the U.S. Patent Office for patenting a host of thingumabobs that add nothing "to the sum of useful knowledge." Among them: an oval toilet paper roll to facilitate tearing off the sheets; elastic gussets for corsets; a device for stamping initials on a plug of tobacco...
Anti-Semitic posters appeared early yesterday morning on several University buildings. Entitled "Jewish Honor Roll," the mimeographed sheets contained the names of seven Jews convicted in recent trials, and a collection of anti-Semitic statements...