Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill leaves the No. 1 job-that of seeing workers through a possible reconversion depression-to the states. The states can tap the Federal Government only if they run out of cash to pay the jobless the benefits, which range from $2 to $22 a week. Then the money is to be lent, not given. Even these benefits are so hedged that the 3,600,000 federal employes, including thousands in U.S.-owned arsenals and shipyards, are left out in the cold. So are migrant war workers. The House trampled on a Senate proposal for the Federal Government...
...marines attacked, 500 miles due east of Mindanao. Their target: the Palau Archipelago (five principal islands, 100 smaller ones). Palau was the brightest star (and capital) of Japan's vast mandated empire. "The spigot of our oil barrel," the Japs called it, when their ships left port to tap the great oil reserves of the stolen Indies...
...revolution in airline thinking. Hitherto airlines have cautiously added planes only when forced into it by increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
...rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar." Solange liked to fall on her knees in a crowded room and, "feebly muttering," wind her arms around the Count's legs...
...Tap on the Shoulder. Overnight, the priest became an international figure. He was feted, shown the sights, received by Soviet dignitaries. A special train was reserved to take him to the front, to visit the Kosciuszko Division of Red Army Poles...