Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rubble & Risk. A frantic assault by healing antibodies began immediately. To save the tunnel-which had cost $50 million, 14 lives* and seven years' labor-firemen, tunnel workers, policemen and rescue squads fought into the tube at the height of the 4,000-degree fire. Dozens collapsed from smoke and choking gases...
Dutra does not smoke and seldom drinks. He is completely without side. On Sundays and on personal outings, he rides in a private car with a civilian license plate. When he was Minister of War, he ordered the police to take away a detective posted for protection at his door. "That man," he said, "is attracting unfavorable attention to my house." One of his first official acts as President was to abolish the presidential bodyguard...
...greatest impact on Japanese women. Before the war they were virtually without legal rights. Now they vote, own property, attend square dances, go to coeducational schools and eagerly discuss the advantages of love matches over the ancient Japanese custom of marriage arranged by parents. They may smoke if they like. Emancipation has not been confined to the young. A middle aged matron in a Fukuoka leather-goods store explained: "Before the war when my husband and I went out I walked behind. Now we walk side by side...
When two Tennessee Democrats pulled together enough votes on Wednesday to kill the Wood Bill, alias the Taft-Hartley Law, there were immediate cries of triumph from labor and its backers. By the next morning, however, the smoke had cleared sufficiently to reveal one depressing fact: the Taft-Hartley statue was still on the books. As long as it says there, we haven't come back very far from the nadir of June, 1947, when the law was passed...
Swearing Off. To christen a new 4,000-h.p. diesel-electric locomotive in Cleveland last week, the Erie Railroad used, instead of champagne, a bottle of locomotive smoke. The Erie thus marked the complete conversion from steam to diesels on its Cleveland passenger runs...