Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to step in immediately with a loan of $250 million for the rehabilitation of Greece's ports, railways, bridges, for the purchase of industrial and raw materials to bolster Greece's economy, and for the support of a British garrison already there. The U.S. would not send soldiers. But the U.S., besides financial aid, must supply economic and military advice and full moral support. The Congressmen knew the alternative: expanding Russia would take over...
Small merchants lost trade; florists found that people who could not read about deaths or weddings did not send flowers. A cinema hired a sound-truck to hawk its shows. Radio stations expanded their newscasts, but it was slim fare. Springfield still had not learned, by paper or radio, that one of the last links with journalistic greatness was gone. Famed Republican Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook, who supported many a cause that the boss did not like, had quit...
Pressure flying continues to grow more & more exact. Nowadays, airplanes in flight send hourly weather reports to the CAA's station WSY in New York. WSY edits the information and broadcasts its essentials at 25-minute intervals to other planes. By merely listening and figuring, a pilot can tell where to find the friendliest tail winds...
...with far-from-poisonous mistresses, whom they obtained through the Montmartre want-ad columns. Sample ad: "Artist, young, tall, healthy and sincere, seeks feminine friend (18-22), brunette, to chase away cafard (the beetle of loneliness), pretty, well formed, pretty legs, healthy, sincere, pecuniarily disinterested, affectionate; for durable relations; send photograph; professionals keep away...
...Dear Mr. Hall: In the highly improbable event that you will ever have a puncture . . . I can only suggest that you remove the wheel and send it back to our factory at Cleveland, Ohio...