Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most U.S. Christians, Kagawa still symbolizes Christianity in Japan. Author of an ambitious three-year plan to evangelize his country, he spends much time training young Japanese to spread the gospel, once again preaches almost daily in his emotional Holy Roller style. He is still a preacher of the social gospel...
...Fibber McGee's cluttered closet is one of the best known. NBC's Tom Horan of Chicago invented it. He used a set of studio chairs resembling a back stoop, piled each step high with old shoes, bowling pins, tennis rackets, bird cages, roller skates, broken dishes and iron scraps...
...Christmas, the $200 million toy industry was falling behind. By last week manufacturers were ready to admit that this will be another year of cardboard and wood makeshifts: there will be few, if any, dolls of prewar quality, few rubber balls that really bounce, few electric trains, velocipedes, roller skates, bicycles and other wheeled and metal toys...
Perhaps some of the U.S. people were ready to, but their representatives in Congress were not. The House promptly passed the Senate resolution for a full investigation (TIME, Sept. 17), after the Democratic steam roller had beaten off an attempt by Republicans to give them equal representation on the investigating committee. After that, the G.O.P. abandoned its effort to continue the inquiry through the 1946 elections. The committee (six Democrats, four Republicans) must now report by next...
Special tutoring got him into Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 17, hard work won him his degree in three years instead of four. With the help of his father, he got a job as draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. at Harrison, NJ. John Wesley Hyatt, who had invented celluloid, was trying to make a go of a new bearing, with little success. When the company was about to go on the rocks, Sloan Sr. bought a controlling interest in it, put in his son to run it. For months, it was touch & go whether the company would continue...