Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia fans, who have set a record for staying away from their home park in large numbers, now have good reason to want to flock inside. For the first time in ten years the Phillies are a solid first-division threat. After last Sunday's doubleheader, they were in fifth place in the National League standings, but only eight games behind the world champion Cardinals, two behind the third-place Pirates. They may still slide ignominiously back into Philly corner, at the bottom of the league. But Philadelphians are making the most of today. Some fans have already sent...
...could not be checked. The needle would never stop. She was well down in the danger zone when she pulled up. "The pressure squeezed down on the hull, feeling cunningly for some weakness. . . . Loud noises issued from the metal. . . . The startled eyes of the men watched a four-inch solid pillar start to bend as the weight of the sea pressed down on the hull. One of the motors began to whine eerily. . . . For ten minutes the hydrophone operator heard the sound of ships near by, then the sounds faded, and the Clyde moved up to a safer depth...
Custodian Ickes. The nation, lathered into a rage, waited, not very patiently, for action from Washington. Bluff Harold Ickes, Solid Fuels Coordinator, custodian of all the mines, now John Lewis' last hope, stuck to his desk, plotting his course. His orders were to get coal mined, and he didn't much care how. On Franklin Roosevelt's desk still lay the Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike bill (he had until June...
Germans get more potatoes, fewer of the vegetables (such as carrots) which they dislike. Italians get more spaghetti, more flour for the solid Italian bread they bake for themselves. American officers of the guard are content to carry their own trays, but POW officers must be served by their own orderlies...
...subsidies on domestic agricultural products. Not even the wildest-eyed proponent of subsidies had thought of using Lend-Lease funds for such a purpose, but the Congress took no chances: the farm bloc, in cahoots with both big & little business for once, is lined up in a solid phalanx against subsidies. The Administration and Labor are solidly for them. This week Franklin Roosevelt indicated he wanted $1½ to $2 billions in subsidies for price rollbacks...