Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleships Nevada and Arkansas, and the less-proud Japanese relic Nagatoa, all with blackened paint, twisted upper works, and assorted injuries. Most remarkable, perhaps, was a three-foot dent in the armored afterdeck of the Nevada, as though a cosmic giant had set his boot there...
...months both candidates had chugged up & down the broad boot of Mexico. From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...
Young Mrs. Roger Horan had life by the tail. Everybody said she looked like Linda Darnell-and she did. Everybody said her three children were bright and beautiful. They were. Her pin-clean apartment in ugly, teeming Astoria, across the East River from Upper Manhattan, was not so bad, considering the housing pinch. And her husband...
Three days later the Government, through Shipping Controller Captain E. S. Brand of the Royal Canadian Navy, began to operate 100-odd ships belonging to 29 companies. The Upper Lakes and St. Lawrence Navigation Co., which signed with the Seamen's union, will still sail its own ships. The Government was operating only freighters, leaving the passenger lines, which normally do a big business with U.S. tourists, at the docks. While Captain Brand runs his ships a Government-appointed Commissioner will mediate the dispute itself...
...intent to assert itself as the "senior" body, took a different approach. OPA was to die a lingering death, with subsidies continued until May, 1947, and with no automatic abolishment of controls until a special three-man board had reviewed the problem for each specific item. But then the upper chamber lent an ear to the lobbies. New England's dairy groups, the Midwest meat-producers, and the Senators from the oil states put in a specific ban against price ceilings on any of their products. There was still a ceiling, but the most important items in a family...