Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean M. Gillespie, 59, victor by a narrow 3,000 votes, was the first Republican elected from Colorado's First Congressional District since 1932. He campaigned with a splash: big billboards, solid newspaper support, and batteries of girls telephoning the citizenry. He hammered at one issue-New Deal bureaucracy. Democrats got a slow start, waiting for their wounded hero, 30-year-old Major Carl E. Wuertele (pronounced Wert-a-lee), to get his Army discharge (TIME, Feb. 7). They never did get rolling. War workers with good wages were apathetic; the party "ins" were soft. Groused one Democratic campaigner...
...blue-eyed and blond. He was a growth from Russia's rich soil-earthy, sturdy, solid in mind and body. His open face was typically Russian, as was his name (voron means raven). A big man, he liked big, sturdy things. On Russia's battlefields he saw guns in action: he liked them...
Even though he was trained to the minute and had not eaten solid food nor had a drink of water all morning, he registered slightly more than the 135-lb. mark. Chick Wergeles (rhymes with Hercules), Beau Jack's voluble little manager, let out a roar of protest. William Brush, of the Department of Weights & Measures, called it 135 Ib., maybe a slight bit over, but explained that the crowd around the sensitive scales would cause enough extra pressure to account for this...
...take an impression of a man's good left hand, make him a right-hand copy of it so realistic that even the fine skin lines show. The hand will hold a pencil or cigaret (see cut), and the fingers bend naturally if leaned against something solid. The coloring is lifelike (if it wears off, it can be touched up temporarily with leg make-up). An Edwards hand and arm costs...
...Down? All this was solid evidence to many a Wall Streeter that profits, despite the still rising curve of U.S. production, are at or near their alltime peak. From now on, they may have no place to go but down...