Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand for an investigation. The Air Force let it be known that it welcomed a full airing of the charges, and said it would rather be asked about the B-36 than any plane it owns. If the charges proved without foundation, then an investigation into who had spread the charges, and why, was due. Either way, the nation and its military establishment were in for some nasty days...
...went with it had sent uneasy rumors and angry charges up & down the 163 miles of corridors in the Pentagon, where Jim Forrestal had finally managed to get Army, Navy and Air Force together under one roof. Some of the Pentagon uneasiness and anger over integration had long since spread to the 1,650,000 men in the nation's vast military establishment. With the coming of Louis Johnson, old Army man and longtime friend of the Air Force, the unseemly feuding broke more openly into public view. There was no doubt of it; the shield of the republic...
...Look at the Chart. Bolivians, Brazilians and Argentines like to spread out big survey charts of the potentially great, 150-mile-wide petroleum zone stretching parallel to the Andes right across the Oriente. "Today we have tin, tomorrow oil," gloated a Bolivian engineer. "There is no better oil anywhere in the world," said a Brazilian, with an unmistakably proprietary air. The Argentines, who were already selling cast-iron plumbing in Santa Cruz, expected to have their...
Soccer is a vital part of the British way of life. Each Thursday in season, ten million Britons get a coupon listing the week's games. With sport pages of the papers spread before him and the family kibitzing, the fan makes his selections and his bet (from one penny up) in the weekly "pool." Led by the big three-Little-wood's, Vernon's and Copes's-the pools take in a staggering $250 million a year and rank as Britain's seventh industry...
...even worried. But the younger faculty members and the graduate students, especially in the physics department are scared stiff. "We're afraid to open our mouths on any idea left of Wilsonian liberalism," one physics instructor says. Other young instructors have admitted that this attitude is wide-spread in the science departments. (Little information is available in other fields in the university; it is well known, however, that although many instructors have Progressive Party sympathies, very few men did any active work for Wallace in the recent election...