Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good as in 1946. Her 110 pulp and paper mills, the Dominion's largest industry, had turned out nearly 7,000,000 tons of paper products worth $700,000,000-and customers all over the world were clamoring for still higher production. Despite a lack of sheet steel (a shortage caused by U.S. and Canadian steel strikes), auto plants managed to build 178,000 cars and trucks, 3% above the average prewar production. And the pile of domestic and foreign orders was higher than ever...
...glared down on a drawing board where a heavyset, black-haired man put careful strokes on a paneled page. He ignored the accusing clock at his back, but sometimes paused for sips of coffee. Once he dozed off, and his 'pen scratched a crazy zigzag down the sheet. It was daylight when Milton Caniff took off his glasses, pushed his work away and stumbled...
...processed food, etc.) were already cutting production, but heavy industries (autos, houses, etc.), which give the U.S. its economic red meat, had hardly begun to satisfy demand. The fact was that no one could say, with certainty, just how long or deep the recession would be. But a balance sheet could be cast up of what could make it comparatively slight, or comparatively deep...
...Information and Education program of the nation's armed forces, in the name of economy. It is no secret that several of the legislators have long considered the program dangerously liberal and subversive, ever since, back in 1945, the Orientation Branch of the I & E Division published Orientation Fact Sheet No. 64 on Fascism, which included a section on 'how can we identify native American fascists at work?" The fact-sheet stated that "in the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti-foreign-born." And, just a month...
...fifth-floor window, a man tossed out a sheet rope, stepped back into the room, and was not seen again. In another window stood a girl in a white nightgown which blazed up suddenly before she jumped. Above her, a man swayed in a panel of flame, rolling his head from side to side. Around him, guests huddled and crawled on ledges to escape deadly gas and smoke, dangled from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped...