Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most interesting feature of the blood drive is the collection equipment itself. On March 4, one of the Commonwealth's snappy new "bloodmobiles" will roll up outside of Brooks House for two days of vein-tapping. The "bloodmobile" is a specially-constructed vehicle that goes from town to town throughout the year, following the same general principle of the traveling libraries that wander over backwoods areas. Instead of landing books, the "bloodmobile" simply borrows blood, with the understanding that the blood will be returned if the donor needs it is a hurry, and quite possible with interest...
Three ink lines on a ticker tape-like roll in the seismologist's office record the motion. The original signals come from a "seismometer" unit in a vault...
Eccles' head did not roll, although his neck was bruised. Magnanimously the President offered him the vice chairmanship of the seven-man board. After wrestling with his pride, Eccles took it. He could still get in plenty of licks at his enemies. While McCabe was learning the tortuous ins & outs of the job, Eccles, the old hand, would continue to be the most influential member of FRB. Independently wealthy and doggedly independent, 57-year-old Marriner Eccles would go on working at his ideas of "capitalistic democracy." A Washington career had been punctuated but by no means ended...
...Smoked salmon on a hard, doughnut-shaped roll...
...housewives girded themselves for a war on high prices. They went from door to door, getting signatures by the thousands on petitions to the government for more drastic controls. There was talk of a "prices train" which would start from the West, pick up delegates along the way, and roll into Ottawa with a mighty force of embattled consumers...