Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary. In a class by himself was young, handsome Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department career man functioning as international secretary general. Relaxed and alert amid innumerable annoyances, Hiss was master of the incredibly complicated conference machinery. The wheels turned. A charter of world organization was taking shape...
...Team. The U.S. team for execution of "Plan Eclipse" (TIME, May 21) began to take shape...
...geographic shape of the U.S. was drastically altered last week just as effectively as it could have been done by a convulsion of nature. It was done by a 9-to-2 decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The South and West were brought nearer to the center of the nation and the Northeast was moved farther away. The ICC thus rearranged the U.S. by its decision to equalize freight rates, on a mileage basis, between all sections of the country except mouritain-Pacific territory...
...opening of these ports will mean that the ports of France and the Low Countries can more quickly carry a flow of peacetime goods. Rotterdam docks are in fairly good shape, but the harbor is still blocked by sunken shipping...
...finally stood at the foot of the Hill of Reconversion. Last week that hill looked quite different from the way it looked a year ago. The shape of the hill, as it began to show itself to many businessmen from their present disadvantage point...