Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the best people in Washington braced themselves last week. Raucous, redheaded Colonel Robert Sharon Allen was about to get out of the Army. They remembered him, somewhat apprehensively, as a combative, profane reporter who would as soon punch a news source in the eye as tap him on the shoulder...
...Generalissimo struck a significant, realistic note. He called upon his councilors to lean primarily upon China's own resources for China's revival. "Our problems cannot be entirely solved by aid from other nations. We must help ourselves. Our entire national future hinges on our ability to tap within ourselves the forces of constructive energy which are the key to the greatness of any people...
...Last Drop. The calamity howlers were sure OPA would be forced to eliminate price ceilings. But all prepared to fight until water in the last tap had been turned off. When Landlord Paul Sierson got OPA permission to evict 40 families from Villa Italia apartments, tenants began writing letters to the President, hired a lawyer, shrilly predicted that the place would be turned into a hotel if they were thrown out. The new rates, they said, knowingly, would be higher...
Eggbeater Production.What McKelvy wanted to tap was a new luxury market. Said he: "I had the same problem that cigaret makers had selling to women." At night, McKelvy began mixing powder in a tin pan with an eggbeater, soon had enough to take around to stores. To Manhattan buyers, he brought cheap full-page ads in obscure trade journals, promised them they would appear in the slick magazines. The stores bit, but slowly at first. He lost $5,000 the first year. Then came the war, and the boom in shipments of gift packages to G.I.'s overseas...
...communications were not opened, all China would suffer. The great popular migration home would be delayed, galloping inflation would be harder to check, industrial reconstruction would lag. Above all, a bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...