Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Wallace, Wickard is a straightforward, balding, apple-cheeked farmer with a weather-bronzed, red-neck color that will last him all his days. He is five-feet-eight, weighs 180 lb., has to watch his weight. He looks more Irish than German, has a jaw so square and solid that it looks as if it had been laid out by a brick mason. His shoulders, neck and torso are wrestler-heavy...
...provide better traction. The 15% solution of calcium chloride in water will not freeze above -20°, reduces bouncing and sidewall buckling, requires little care because water will not diffuse through an inner tube as air does. The liquid distributes pressure to all parts of the tire, unlike a solid filler. The tire was developed by Goodyear, is not yet on the market...
Before the snagging of a solid millionaire (Robert Cummings) resolves this fiscal impasse, Moon has used up seven woefully unimaginative tunes, the pneumatic assets of the Misses Grable, Landis, Cobina Wright Jr., the semitropical color and languor of Miami, the devilishly clever, coy stock-in-trade that passes for acting with Mr. Ameche, and $1,000,000 worth of Darryl Zanuck's money...
Stalin means steel, but Stalin Line does not mean steel wall. The Stalin Line is an intermittent series of fortifications in depth, a ribbon of redoubts averaging 25 miles across, and too long-1,100 miles-to be solid. It was mostly built in the Maginot era of military thought, and its early links were finished in 1933. But lessons learned on other lines have been hastily applied. Still the Stalin Line has blank spots, and places where lakes and marshes are trusted too much. The Germans seemed to think the Stalin Line could be turned nearly as easily...
...Solid anti-administration blocs came from Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Twin Cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle...