Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progress. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Elizabeth Slaney called attention to a special feature planned for her new $175,000 drive-in theater: a button system for every car to bring a vendor on the run with a fresh supply of popcorn...
...engine bombers and jet fighters over the reviewing stand in Red Square. The main address was delivered by rising Red star Georgy M. Malenkov. Said Politburocrat Malenkov: the U.S. is trying to enslave the whole world, outdoing the Nazis and the Japanese imperialists; at the same time, the capitalist system is approaching another disastrous depression (by lumping in "those not working a full week," Malenkov arrived at a U.S. unemployed total of 14 million). Russia, on the other hand, is surrounded by friendly neighbors* and, since the West's fiasco in China, the number of people in the Soviet...
...Limmer establishment works very much on the old world system, with the two sons, both unmarried, living at home and working with Papa and Mama in the shop. Peter Jr. estimates it would take one of them alone two full days to make a pair of boots. The shoes are easier and the Limmers can make about three pairs...
...special emphasis on the causes for a sharp decline in the population of Yap. Four major typhoons occurred while the study was going on, but this did not prevent the research crew from compiling a thorough analysis of the native culture with its age-grading custom and strict caste system...
...basis of the point system, by which two points are awarded for winning a game and one for a tie, the present scores are: Eliot 12, Adams 10, Leverett 8, Winthrop 8, Dudley 7, Kirkland 4, Lowell 3, and Dunster...