Word: spills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleveland had even better news. More jobs were in the immediate making. In the last year 50 industrial companies had decided to locate new factories in the Cleveland area. The $100,000,000 they were spending would spill out into about 25,000 jobs. The prize catch was a whopper: two General Motors plants (to produce the new light Chevrolet) that would cost upwards of $50,000,000, make jobs for a minimum of 10,500 men.*Cleveland was working on more factory prospects, with about 25,000 more jobs as the prizes...
...Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...
...issued history a false passport by revising the entire record of the Russian revolution, eliminating Trotsky and making himself the military hero of the civil war and the political hero of the revolution; 5) he officially murdered a whole generation of Old Bolsheviks who knew the truth and might spill...
Like many an editor of the old, hell-raising school, triple-chinned William Theodore Evjue is at his best when he has a mad on. As Wisconsin's loudest personal journalist, he lets his purple rages spill over the front page of the Madison Capital Times in roaring editorial torrents. He does not confine himself to print. The hired hands in his newsroom are inured to his thunderous invective...
...U.S.S.R. took full advantage of the peoples in its southern states whose cousins live across the border in Iran. Azerbaijan's knife-wearing Kurds and ebullient Armenians spill over into adjoining countries (see map). Its 700,000 Kurds have kin in Turkey and British-controlled Iraq. Its 65,000 Armenians identify themselves with Armenians in Turkey and in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would...