Word: thems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In all the tables of statistics in Washington, crowded with numbers so immense that no one could really grasp them, one figure was simple enough to be seen, smelled and tasted: each day the U.S. was spending $15 million more than it was taking in.
Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in...
They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union...
Fulton Lewis briskly pointed out that General Leslie Groves was then head of the Manhattan Project. Jordan added that Hopkins "gave me instructions over the long distance telephone to expedite certain freight shipments ... I was to ... say nothing about them, even to my superior officers." Three shipments came through, of...
Not all joined Thomas in educating the foreign masses in the peculiarities of the American public servant-a good many worked diligently at learning something themselves, thus went practically unnoticed, and in a sense, wasted their personalities during their travels. But the bolder and more extraverted made up for them...