Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a tear has been shed, especially by small businessmen, over the hard lot of new enterprises. But last week the Department of Commerce reported that the number of U.S. business firms rose by 200,000 in 1947 to a peak of 3,870,000. This was 14% above the previous alltime total (in September 1941). The rate of increase was on the decline. Reason: "the gradual disappearance of the more obvious opportunities for new enterprises which existed at war's end in construction and manufacturing...
...play is chiefly impressive for its perfectly friendly, utterly deadly knowledge of both the English and the Irish. Leaping in two directions, Shaw spares no one, stops at nothing. But his fireworks sometimes shed new light, and his paradoxes sometimes prove very sound perceptions. Least of all does John Bull spare Larry Doyle, the Irishman who, like Shaw, has turned English, sees clearly what's wrong with both countries, and is not very happy in either...
Seniors graduating in June will find a seller's market for their talents, according to a recent survey conducted by the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. With figures culled from 34 universities, the statistics show that a college graduate can shed his cap and gown and step into a job at twice the salary that his Class of 1939 schoolmate could expect...
That cold December day in 1903, a gusty north wind was blowing across the sand dunes of North Carolina's coast. The wind blew sand into the eyes of Wilbur and Orville Wright as they moved their awkward flying machine out of its shed at Kitty Hawk. Orville, a short, neat man with a heavy mustache, stretched himself flat on his stomach on the lower wing, between the two chain-driven propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose...
...echoing train shed behind the grimy Greek façade of London's Euston Station, Driver Ambrose Grant climbed into the cab of locomotive Number 5508. The bells of London joined the shrilling of train whistles to welcome a new year. Guard Arthur Smith switched his lamp from red to green, waved the "go ahead" to Driver Grant, and swung into the guard's van. At two minutes past midnight, Number 5508 chuffed out of the station for the run to Crewe. It pulled the first nationalized train to leave London...