Word: unsnarl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Square, Cambridge's nationally notorious traffic intersection, is in a whirl this month. The City Planning Board, in another desperate attempt to unsnarl the pedestrians from the buses from the cars, is experimenting with a rotary traffic plan. So far, the daily scrimmage of man against machine has grown only more exciting, hardly any less dangerous...
...Army sent him to Persia, as a colonel, to unsnarl the rail shipments of U.S. material to the Soviet Union. He did so well that General Eisenhower brought him to England as assistant supply boss for the Normandy invasion, later put him in charge of the First Military Railway Service in France. At war's end, Stoddard quickly moved up to U.P.'s general manager. Last week, when President George F. Ashby retired at 63, U.P.'s Chairman E. Roland Harriman and his fellow directors named Stoddard president...
...night Allied military trucks chugged up the mountainside, began the evacuation of some 17,000 people. From San Sebastiano, Massi di Somma and Cercola, the homeless and their meager belongings were carted downslope to emergency shelter and food. In the lava-lit darkness, while grimy soldiers struggled to unsnarl traffic, an air raid alarm sounded. Men doused lights, but Vesuvius paid no heed...
...Shah called in U.S. Economist ArthurChester Millspaugh to unsnarl the country's appalling financial tangle. For a time Iranian petitions began: "Oh, Allah! Oh, Shah! Oh, Dr. Millspaugh...
Three years ago at a conference in Havana, radio experts from Canada, Mexico, Cuba and the U. S. sat down to unsnarl the tangled North American air waves. At the time, all kinds of signals were jumping over borders to jam up any programs that got into their path...