Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invaluable contribution," snapped Lucas. But if it got down to cases, he wanted to point out that the Republicans had used up 57% of the debating time, not counting the Republican-abetted filibuster of the Southern Democrats over civil rights. Michigan's Homer Ferguson produced some figures to shift the blame right back to the Democrats. As he had it, the Republicans had used up only 1,563 and one-ninth pages of the Record; Democrats had used 1,612 and four-ninths...
...Frugal City. The Communist plan fell into several stages. Decentralization would not only move out "nonproducers" but shift factories to the interior, where they would be closer to food, raw materials and coal. What remained of Shanghai would be turned "inward," i.e., weaned away from dependence upon foreign trade...
...newsmen. At his right, as is customary at Acheson's weekly press conferences, sat big, beefy State Department Press Officer Lincoln White. The Secretary wanted to get something off his chest-and what he had to say was almost as surprising to the press corps as a new shift in U.S. foreign policy. He wanted to apologize for having been rude...
...million, 46% above 1948. The reason: as steel became plentiful this year, G.M. was able for the first time since the war to push its production throttle to the floor board. G.M. intended to keep it there: next week, Chevrolet's Flint plant will add an extra shift to step up production from 480 cars a day to 680. In 1949's second quarter, G.M. had already broken all previous quarterly production records by turning out 792,346 cars and trucks...
...months that the North Atlantic Treaty has been before Congress and the U.S. public, there has been a surprising lack of real feeling about it. Presumably, then, most people were for this radical shift in traditional U.S. diplomacy...