Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke his soldiers suddenly turned away, looked at the sky. The Governor stopped talking, for he heard the noise, too -the steady, humming throb of aircraft engines. It grew into thunder. Six American P-405 whipped across the bluff. The A.V.G.s were...
President Roosevelt heard the cheering thunder of the U.S. war production machinery and made a decision: the production goals at first called staggering, and denounced in Berlin as pure bluff, were too small after all. He told a press conference that U.S. industry, powered and geared for war, might by the end of 1943 be able to turn out more than the impossible totals of January 6: 185,000 planes, 120,000 tanks and 55,000 anti-aircraft guns. He admitted one disquieting exception to the good news: ship construction, lagging for lack of steel plates. But Franklin Roosevelt firmly...
...Jones was still far from being put in a jar. Dispenser of billions of dollars, as smart at politics as at financing, he has always had Congress eating out of his hand. His removal would unloose a roar of thunder in his home State, Texas, and the South, which has received a goodly portion of Mr. Jones's well-distributed loans. But one man in the U.S. still looms larger: Mr. Roosevelt...
Died. Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892. Some of his plays: From Rags to Riches, Yosemite, The King of the Opium Ring, The Queen of White Slaves. Star of Rags was wide-eyed Laurette Taylor, then his wife...
...garden, we found Paul Poiret, an ivory whip in his hand, enthroned in the "midst of his beautiful harem. . . . There were men with huge snakes coiled about their necks . . . and fantastic-looking fortunetellers . . . one who had diamonds incrusted in her teeth. . . . As a finale, there was a peal of thunder, and as the 'storm' broke, the guests were showered with a rain of stars and thousands of brilliant insects which buzzed about, while the monkeys and parrots chattered and shrieked in terror...