Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remarkable was the situation in the onetime Solid South. Not a single Texas paper was for Roosevelt: eight dailies in San Antonio, Dallas, Houston backed Wendell Willkie, one was neutral. Both Memphis papers, all four papers in New Orleans were for Willkie. Of the eleven papers backing Roosevelt, three are published in New York City...
...week at a long mahogany table in Washington's Commerce Department Building a group of scientists and engineers sat down for their first meeting. Appointed by Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins, the National Inventors' Council has only one reason for existence: to listen to all inventors, cracked or solid, tap them for soundness. Head of the council was one of the U. S.'s most famed industrial scientists, who has been known to have some queer ideas himself-horse-faced, talkative Charles Kettering, General Manager of Research Laboratories of General Motors Corp., inventor of the self-starter, electric...
Ever since Adolf Hitler began redeeming minorities, Rumania has been meat for partitioning. The country was one of the most spectacular gainers after World War I. It is dotted like the Indies with islands -of foreigners. Big and solid islands are the Bulgarian minority in Dobruja and a Hungarian minority in southeast Transylvania, almost at dead centre of the country. Ten years ago the Rumanians admitted minorities of 1,425,000 Hungarians, 740,000 Germans, 725,000 Jews, 575,000 Ruthenians, 415,000 Russians, 315,000 Bulgarians, 290,000 Turks, 275,000 Gypsies...
...Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid 40 minutes late, rolled up at last with Banker Holy Spirit Silva, embarked with his staff of three, all Old Etonians...
Thus did Funk blast the cartel scheme with which, at last week's Havana conference, the U. S. was trying to build a solid hemisphere front. Well did Herr Funk know that the U. S. (with her exportable surpluses of agricultural products) would not be able to buy enough from South America (which has mainly agricultural products to sell) to provide her with the money to buy the products of U. S. industry. But Germany (and all Europe), which needs food and raw materials, could pay for them with the industrial products South America lacks. Most disquieting thing about...