Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raise. Herbert Hoover, one of the hardest pluggers for a raise for Harry Truman, declared that the President was lucky if he had enough left out of his salary for cigarette money (Truman doesn't smoke). Actually, Truman told friends, after he pays his $30,000 income tax, he averages about $80 a week take-home...
Handicapped by an archaic 1872 charter which made him, like all his predecessors, the Throttlebottom of the city council, he set up mayor's commissions on everything from human relations to smoke abatement. He was a great hand at patching labor troubles. After settling one row, Humphrey proudly explained: "What labor and management need is a catalytic agent. And brother, that's little Hubert...
...huddled over it with his wife and five-year-old daughter. For hours, as the storm howled, they coughed with smoke and fed their flame. But gradually the numbing cold sapped their strength. As they sat snuggled together with their arms around each other, the fire went out. The wind blew fine snow through every crack in the car, heaped it tightly around them. Thus blanketed, they died...
...spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures and the smoke all spiral toward the building being done...
Ominous Cloud. For six weeks, between Armistice Day and Christmas, representatives of the six signatories had sat in a smoke-filled room in London's Foreign Office, hammering out the agreement clause by clause and word by word. The conference started under an ominous cloud, caused by a decision of the U.S. and British military governors in Germany that ownership of the Ruhr industries should ultimately be handed back to the Germans (TIME, Nov. 29). The decision, embodied in "Law 75," drew violent protests from the apprehensive French. (The question of ownership was not on the agenda...