Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the Bund, down pedicab-jammed Tai Ping Road, Canton's shops and sidewalk stands bulged with everything from leather goods to solid gold rings and brooches. The jewelry, generally regarded as the only remaining safe investment in an inflation area that rivals panicky Shanghai, was selling briskly...
...initiation fees, and dues. But the fact remains that forbidding the closed shop cannot be justified in industries where union hiring halls are necessary to handle rotation and seasonal employment, or in consideration of the necessity for demanding more than is wanted where union representatives cannot be sure of solid membership in a plant...
...Cries. Hours before the wedding, Romans by the thousands began to flock to the church. Unable to enter, they formed a solid, screaming mass from the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia. Invited guests had to push their way through sweating hordes, and became rumpled, bruised and angry. U.S. Ambassador James Clement Dunn nearly lost his coat. One man's finger was broken. Several women fainted...
With low-hanging stratus (i.e., solid layer) clouds, Project Cirrus was just as successful. Langmuir told how the planes had drawn Greek letters and "racetrack" patterns in stratus clouds by dropping small amounts of dry ice (see cut). Sometimes the cloud was dissipated so completely that blue sky showed through the gaps. Langmuir believes that dry ice can be used to clear clouds from over airports...
...scrappy, finally seasoned outfit, they fought on in France. When the war ended they collected $400 for a solid-silver loving cup, which they admiringly presented to Harry Truman. Most of them went back to Kansas City and the country's Main Streets, finally to become middle-aged heroes of the best-known battery in the A.E.F. Tommy Murphy started raising a family of seven children and ended up as a paint salesman...