Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madame Perkins' roomy office in the Labor Department, he had brought the solid backing of Harry Truman, with carte blanche to do what he wanted. Many of the powers that should have been in the Department had long since been given piecemeal to boards & bureaus like WLB and NLRB. Even if labor lay low for a while, the new Secretary would have had plenty of work...
...Curmudgeon, who had come a producing and consuming countries. Long before then, U.S. oilmen expect to get some solid results. Some hope that the pact will mean an end to the Red Line area agreement* which has slowed drilling in parts of the Middle East...
...worst human caricatures of something ineluctably real. Its heroine, Carol Kennicott, the Madame Bovary of the wheat elevators, was the archetype of a million repressed U.S. small-town men & women. Even readers who detested Carol Kennicott as much as her Gopher Prairie neighbors did were attracted by her husband, solid, plodding long-suffering Dr. Will Kennicott. Main Street was a shriek against the standardized smugness of U.S. life and a coo of satisfaction that it was so solidly smug...
...needs security," he said. "Having suffered most from the mistakes of the pre-war years, they do not want a repetition of pre-war democracy. They feel that their interests can best be service by strengthening their alliances are their neighbors to the west, in hopes of achieving a solid front. For the accurate of Russia, and of the world, the western nations must recognize Russia's right of this strength...
History of Jazz: The "Solid" South (Capitol Records, 10 sides). Vol. I of a new firm's ambitious four-part survey of American jazz. With the exception of Leadbelly, whose piano, guitar and vocalizing are invulnerable, the rest is mostly men of the '40s trying to play the way the jazzmen did in the '20s. Performance: fair...