Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush of last-minute business, the Senate did not get around to acting on the appointees. They will serve, nevertheless, by interim appointment, until the Senate does act-some time next January...
...money from Congress. Last fortnight the U.S. Senate Special War Investigating committee had some tough words to say about the highway. The committee concerned itself little with the road's prewar history, much with the wartime chapters, when German submarines threatened sea lanes in the Caribbean and a rush job sought to drive the highway through to Panama...
...weeks later, another fisherman hauled in a 32½-pounder, then a world's record for Kamloops (now it's a 36-pounder). Then the rush began. Anglers converged on Pend Oreille, equipped with deep-sea tackle and high hopes. When the Kamloops bit, they bit hard. One man, rowing along the shore one morning with his rod draped over the stern, suddenly saw the rod fly up as if alive. He dropped his oars and dived for it, splitting his chin open on the boat's gunwale. The fish got away, taking rod & reel with...
After observing last year's confusion, the Coop immediately planned for this fall's anticipated rush. It had tenants on the second and third floors of the Coop Building at 1400 Massachusetts Avenue move elsewhere to make way for the renovations...
...Congress' record has not been all black. The bill to merge the armed forces, which is being pushed to passage this week, has been long needed, and will straighten out a host of pointless complexities, New, as Congressional investigating committees rush out to diverse points, hope must be suspended until next January. Perhaps then the legislators will form a consistent policy, a little more free from more sniping at the administration, as to what will eventually do the country most good. This will have to include a broad program of European relief and an understanding as to what part will...