Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this vast sum of unspent "money." Unmindful of this, Ranger Townsend was riding high, in his cartridge belt fresh ammunition to blow to kingdom come the silverites' arguments. To protests that ending foreign purchases would bruise U. S.-Mexican relations, Senator Townsend could merely ask "What relations?" and snap one word: "Oil." To reminders that the silver program was designed to raise the world price artificially, he could note that the price was lower than ever (34¾?) and that without the U. S. purchase plan† the natural price might be 10 to 15? per oz., which would...
Among the baggage of U. S. Minister to Bulgaria George Howard Earle 3rd, when he sails March 9, will be a pinball machine, such as used to be in the executive mansion at Harrisburg, where the Governor (1935-39), during hot conferences, would stride up & down, snap the plunger furiously...
...figures for the 1939-40 season have indicated big increases in radio listening, generally traced to: 1) a war-inspired zest for news; 2) better shows. In January, tuners stuck closer to their radios than ever before, probably because of the U. S. cold snap...
...Downtown Gallery, both trends met in a one-man show of 36 water colors by black-haired, soft-spoken Chicago Artist Rainey Bennett. The water colors were of Venezuela. Their commissioner (and owner of 24): Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Their merits: sufficient for the Metropolitan Museum to snap up two of the twelve that were for sale, a fortnight before the show opened...
Next week, on the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Republic, every newspaper in Brazil celebrated with bold headlines. President Vargas understood. His country's press was still loyal to the Republic, cared not a snap for his Estado Novo...