Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steam Gone. The House voted 218 to 170 to send the statehood bill back to committee-and thereby kill it for at least this year. Democrats split almost evenly...
...together or separate, the chances of Alaska and Hawaii are dim for the foreseeable future; the steam has gone out of the statehood movement. Said California's Democratic Representative Clair Engle, an advocate of statehood, in opening the House debate: "If this legislation fails, it may postpone for many years, if not forever, the entrance of these incorporated territories as states-of the Union...
...morning, after the Democratic governors breakfasted with their party's congressional leaders as guests of Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House dining room, Shivers and Butler huddled between the steam tables in the serving kitchen. When they emerged, red-faced from external and internal heat, Chairman Butler said: "The groundwork has been laid for unity and strength in the Democratic Party in Texas. If the Democratic Party is realistic enough to look for converts to the party ... it generally will have to be realistic enough to take back the penitents...
...that stretches through Belgian territory from the Atlantic to the Mountains of the Moon, choirs of Bantu children rehearsed the Te Deum. African regiments drilled, jazz bands blared in the bush, and on the great brown river that drains the middle of the continent Negro captains tooted the raucous steam whistles on their swiftly gliding paddle boats...
...Industrial Revolution. With its deepwater port of Liverpool (pop. 790,000), its damp climate and plentiful coal, Lancashire was for a century the cotton clothier of half the world. Lancashire men invented the first machines of mass production (the Crompton mule, the spinning jenny), were the first to use steam to drive them. But the price of industrial precocity, in an age that was unprepared for it, was paid by the people of Lancashire. In Lancashire's "dark, satanic mills" children labored twelve hours a day, women grew old at 30. Religion was their chief succor. The Methodist revival...