Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Labor government, locked in dubious battle with the obscure forces of a dollar-exchange crisis, had to turn this week to a more tangible danger. On the decision of his cabinet, King George VI proclaimed a state of emergency to meet a two-week-old strike on the London docks. Not since the General Strike of 1926 had a British government taken such drastic action in a labor dispute...
...brought, McPherrin says, but they are still for it. "When prodded into discussing the cost of the service to him as a taxpayer, the worker begins to realize that he does not know much about the cost and this fact worries him . . . But he is not ready to turn against the health scheme. Even if he were, there is no place for him to turn...
...good. Yield ran from as low as 2 bushels an acre up to 40. The Kansas crop was almost a complete reversal of last year's "miracle wheat," where stunted, scraggly stems had borne unexpectedly huge heads, and the state's estimated 160-million-bushel harvest had turned into 231 million bushels. This year's 251-million-bushel estimate may turn out to be as much as 75 million bushels too high...
...strip the bodies from junkyard cars, replace them with low-slung, homemade roadster bodies. On the engine they install a high-compression cylinder head, a dual manifold and a special camshaft. After months of work and $800 to $1,200 spent for parts, they have a racer that will turn up 140 h.p., capable of speeds over 100 miles per hour. They have been clocked at better than 140 m.p.h. at the Southern California Timing Association's Muroc Dry Lake track, a center of U.S. "hot-rod" racing...
...another good old Metro musical, in turn-of-the-century costume, featuring Van Johnson and Judy Garland. By day Van is an up & coming salesman in a Chicago music store. At night he carries on an anonymous lonely-hearts correspondence with an unknown lady. Judy, a salesgirl in the same shop, is also a lonely-heart. Before they discover that they are writing to each other, a foreseeable number of comic situations have been run through the wringer...