Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rastus" Corning is a captive of Albany's notorious O'Connell machine, but the convention stage managers built a whoop-it-up show around him, paraded him, Jim Mead and dignified Herbert Lehman around the hall in red jeeps, got set to make a drive for the veterans' vote...
...Russian zone. CDU leaders, like capable, sincere Chairman Jacob Kaiser, seriously considered boycotting the elections, but finally decided to participate. Their reason in effect was: if we don't participate, it means virtual dissolution of the party. But the Russians probably would continue the party artificially as a stage decoration with weak leaders who would bow to the Russians. On the other hand, our participation may attract the rest of Germany's and the world's attention to the situation in the Russian zone. Germans voting in the zonal elections actually won't be electing councilmen...
...friend of labor and a skillful bargainer, would effect a compromise somewhere around 12½?. This might bring the resignations of hold-the-liners like the Prices Board's Donald Gordon. But it might get the men back to work. At week's end, the stage was set for just such a compromise...
...First stage will be vastly improved airplanes stemming from conventional designs. If the scientists are right, they will fly faster than sound, climb to the lower edge of the stratosphere, be bigger and longer-ranged than anything now known. Their functions: patrolling, old-fashioned atomic bombing, fighting their enemy opposite numbers...
Middle Level. Chemical-fueled rockets, V-2 and its relatives, will fill the second stage of preparation for war. Thanks to the Germans, they are already effective weapons-in-being, known in Russia and Britain as well as in the U.S. If war were to start in five years, improved V2s with atomic warheads might be the dominant weapons...