Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utah, plodding silver-bloc Senator Abe Murdock was unopposed in the Democratic senatorial primary. With Representatives Walter Granger and J. Will Robinson, he will base next fall's campaign on Democratic success in keeping the $191 million, warbuilt Geneva Steel plant going by selling it to U.S. Steel...
...they stuck out their neck and asked for suggestions. Out of the developing minds of tomorrow's Mellons and Morgans came a trio of ideas. Hard Times. Silver Dollar, Das Kapital. Where is the bear of Yesteryear...
Miracle of Healing. Saint Frances Xavier's best known miracle occurred in March 1921. A nurse at the Cabrini-founded Columbus Hospital in Manhattan accidentally washed out the eyes of an infant named Peter Smith with a 50% solution of silver nitrate instead of the routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors...
...three jittery ex-marines, the humdrum postwar world looks pretty hopeless. Dorothy McGuire cannot put aside the dead romantic daydreams that crashed over Europe with her flyer husband. Ex-Pugilist Bill Williams bitterly resents his new artificial legs. Robert Mitchum takes to drink, hoping to forget the painful silver plate in his head. Guy Madison, home from the Pacific with a whole skin, is too restless to stomach the unexciting routine of a civilian...
...careful years in Washington, silver-shocked Senator Shipstead has learned to avoid controversial domestic subjects, has never signed his name to any important piece of legislation. But he has remembered to look out for his constituents. He blatantly promised "to lead the farmers up to the Treasury-trough for a hearty feed." Originally a Republican, he paid no attention to party lines. Minnesota had first sent him to the Senate as a Farmer-Laborite, returned him twice on that ticket, finally as a Republican again...