Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then came some welcome news. The conferees had agreed that the Allied airlift to Berlin could be stepped up to 4,500 tons a day by next fall. A new airport would be constructed in Berlin to handle additional C-54s. The planes could be supplied without serious strain on either the Air Force or its military transport service...
...over a plan to loosen Europe's currency restrictions. Quickly, the committee reached a tentative agreement. If the details could be successfully worked out and agreed on, the plan would permit Western Europe's nations to buy more easily from each other, thereby relieving some of the strain on the U.S. economy...
...worth all this nervous strain...
...Custard Principle. Ventre hit a deep strain in Spectator readers. But would his philosophy work? Wrote one: "Kick the cat, snap asunder the shanking mashie . . . show resistentia that you will stand no nonsense. But this is bad for the blod pressure . . . Ventre gives no guide in this dilemma." Wrote another: man might still "divide, deceive and sometimes rule. A lawn perishing from drought may be saved by its owner's . . . leaving a valuable book outdoors. By a variation of this principle, the grim persistence of watched pots in not boiling can be harnessed to prevent the ruin...
...last week, Mel Patton showed up at Minneapolis, and after gingerly testing his legs, announced that he would run in two National Collegiate championship events. Without too much strain, he won the 100-meter dash. Then, with a following wind, he stretched his long legs and covered the 200 meters in 28.7 seconds (equaling Jesse Owens' record time around a curve in the 1936 Olympics). Southern California's Patton was now ready for the final Olympic tryouts, and then a trip to London...