Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some mice develop cancers when suckled by mice of a cancerous strain...
...draw new rolling stock from ferries. Giant cranes lifted locomotives from other ships. Ducks loaded with supplies slid through the water and rolled up to the concrete storage squares. At night powerful searchlights lit the harbor for all-night shifts. (Capture of Le Havre ought soon to ease the strain on Cherbourg and the beaches; now ships will be able to proceed up the Seine itself to Rouen, 75 miles from Paris...
...less-emotional Yorkshireman, Professor Thomas Edmund Jessop of Hull University, wagged a warning finger at possible postwar nerves. Said he: "The only salvation of the English people may be their traditional phlegmatic attitude toward events. . . . The machine is going too fast for the average human mind and the strain may prove too great...
...union is making any serious attempt to organize Grumman. The company has never had a strike or a slowdown. It has handled the explosive race problem just as smoothly, now has some 600 Negroes in all types of jobs. Worker morale is so good that Grumman can always strain production in emergencies. When the Navy lost an unexpected number of planes on Guadalcanal, Swirbul rallied the workers on a weekend, to make up the deficit. Although production then was only three planes a day, they uncrated parts already packed for shipping and sweated out 23 planes in 24 hours...
...Shopping, working and keeping house at the same time may be too much of a strain...