Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally added up the bill for White House repairs: $5,400,000 to construct a fireproof, steel & concrete interior which would stand on its own foundations inside the existing exterior, like a self-contained house within a house. Talking it over with congressional committeemen, Harry Truman remembered how he had first noticed signs of trouble when "the big, fat butler brought me my breakfast one morning and the floor shook." What finally convinced him was the day the bathroom floor sagged perilously and he imagined himself plummeting through the floor, bathtub and all, during a reception in the Blue Room...
...Sent up to Congress his long-awaited anti-inflation bill, with stand-by powers to control prices, wages and scarce materials, put Government in business for itself if private enterprise failed to meet what the Government thinks its production should...
High above the ancient shrine of three faiths, a Zionist banner proclaimed: "Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." In the flag-decked streets below. Jewish youths danced the Hora. It was a day of triumph in the city which, for centuries of their exile, has been the symbol of the Jews' lost homeland...
...debatable. But there was no doubt that his careless talk-followed by his official announcement last week that the U.S. would not now increase its forces in Japan-had persuaded many people throughout the Far East that the U.S. could not be relied on to help them make a stand against Russian expansion...
...present standbys of the U.S. Air Force (the B-36, F-80, etc.) are much like the airplanes of late World War II. Behind these in the development series stand strange-looking craft like the Northrop Flying Wing and the six-jet Boeing B-47, neither yet ready for service. Even farther away from military use are odder airplanes, such as the model 7002 Consolidated-Vultee Delta wing, which looks like a big bomber's tail with the rest of the bomber missing (see cut). So far, the Delta wing has had only its test flights...