Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more revealing report on Count Teleki came from the typewriter of Columnist Dorothy Thompson, to whom last year he gave a monograph he had written on the structure of European nations. (He had once been a professor of geography.) At that time he said of Transylvania: "I would rather wait another generation than get it by grace of the Germans." But Teleki had no choice. Columnist Thompson asked him: "What will you do if the Germans insist on using Hungary as a base for operations against another State?" He replied: "It will be Hungary's historic catastrophe...
...Bonneville, Shasta, Boulder, Parker, Colorado-Big Thompson and TVA power projects: transformers, generators, turbines...
When Pundit Dorothy Thompson read this, she found it "full of social significance." Wrote she to Author Hobson: "It preaches the only important moral, social and economic lesson, namely: that too much of a good thing is too much. Only think how well off Mr. Hitler would have been if he had been satisfied with a dachshund and a Pomeranian, but no, he also had to have a Scotty and a great Dane, and I give you my word, if we are not careful, he is going to go after a Mexican hairless. And with them all on the lead...
...main line of attack was with chemicals. Problem: to find fungicides that would not hurt the crops. During the past decade the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Yonkers, N. Y.) has experimented with almost all the standard elements, but farmers still rely chiefly on compounds of sulphur, mercury and copper. Since 1921 crops have been dusted with poison from airplanes. This is the most perilous branch of commercial aviation...
...weeks ago, in Baltimore, gentle Giant Simon had been licked by a third-rater named Jim Thompson. "Simple Simon," sneered the experts, and bet 4-to-1 that Louis would polish him off before the end of the fifth round...