Word: spouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan became embroiled with the U.S.S.R., the U.S. would almost certainly cut off supplies of oil to Japan. Only the fear that Japan would attack The Netherlands East Indies for oil has so far kept the U.S. from putting a potato in the spout...
...Kellogg, Iowa, the Midwest Metal Stamping Co. makes One Minute Washers. Said one of its officers last week: "Today you lose the agitator, tomorrow the drain spout, the next day the wringer heads." His washing-machine production this year will be 6,000, half of last year's; next year he expects it will probably be nothing. Of the rest of his business-stampings for light sockets, etc.-½ of 1% is now for defense. He thinks that could be increased. Meanwhile, he has laid off 100 of his 300 employes...
...realtors, banks, restaurants, hotels, bars, prostitutes, it was boomtown prosperity. Per capita earning in the city was the world's highest: $23 a week. On the first and 15th of every month, $20,000,000 in Federal wages spout out of the Treasury into workers' pockets. Postage receipts were up $100,000,000 in February 1941 over February 1940. In the past five years, department-store sales jumped from an annual $57,000,000 to $85,000,000. In a year, one drugstore chain sold 40,000 alarm clocks...
...Paso, Tex., on the silty ever-changing banks of the Rio Grande-but not enough to wash the word chamizal from long Mexican memories. In Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies last week Deputy Professor (of the National University) José Betancourt Pérez rose to spout: "Mexico cannot believe in the Good Neighbor policy if the United States does not comply with its obligations in the Chamizal case...
...normal weight and the judicious use of drugs ... is as good as any." Hypertension is a disease of the arterial system. The heart pumps blood into the arteries with such force that if a large artery were slashed and a vertical glass tube inserted, the column of blood would spout to a height of almost three feet...