Word: snailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to trundle a pilot model off its 7,954-ft. No. 1 line in May. Last week No. 1 was running under its own power and producing three cars an hour. This snail's pace, said production men, would gradually be stepped up to 60 an hour by October. Meanwhile, the No. 2 line (two more are planned) was already taking shape...
...housing is being constructed at snail's pace; most building materials are being exported for money. There are few new cars, radios, and clothes: here again, the overseas market is being served first. Nor is there much chance that the situation will improve in the near future, for England finds herself a debtor nation for the first time and is terribly anxious about her financial straits. A major worry of late has been the prospect that U. S. inflation will destroy whatever benefits the loan might bring by enabling England to buy far less in the U. S. with...
...dramatize the crisis. To prod the public and pressure the farmer, he appointed the Famine Emergency Committee, put crack Administrator Chester Davis at its head. Fiorello LaGuardia bounded onto the scene as director general of UNRRA, to succeed the tired and ailing Lehman. Cried LaGuardia, as he prodded the snail-paced Combined Food Board: "I am going to get wheat, or I am going to tell the world why not! . . . I am not going around like Evangeline Booth with a tambourine in my hand...
Getting the Army to let go was only half the problem. The other half was selling the goods. To date, surplus-property agencies have been so snail-slow that they have fallen far behind even the tortoise-slow Army. Out of the $10.9 billion in property which has been declared surplus, only a small $962,000,000 has been sold...
...last moment before nailing me down!" Meanwhile the Count's heart "contracted at the sight of the young cork [trees] that had grown during his absence." Though Solange had died, the Count knew that the pulse of France was beating as strongly as ever-"the truffles truffled . . . the snail slavered, the manure manured, the cemetery rotted, the preserves preserved, the rabbit's blood dripped...