Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman was in a reminiscent mood at his V-J day press conference. Someone asked him about the decision to use the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and he replied with a little story...
Letters written in Russian, English, and French showing him to be the University's agent, are among the many documents be must carry. With War Department permission to remain in Germany only 14 days, Mueller does not yet know whether he will get a chance to use his Russian letter and visit Leipzig in the Russian zone...
Increasing the current shortage of rooms will be the use this fall of Apley. Little and Dudley Halls to house undergraduates instead of the usual 178 graduates...
...Rebuttal. Industry's argument against the expansionists is based on the economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce...
Done with Air. Barbers, nattily dressed in white poplin smocks and two-toned shoes, showed off such innovations as electric clippers attached to cords which pulled back into wall cabinets when not in use; air hoses to blow off bits of clipped hair; and swinging "rumble seats" attached to the customers' chairs on which the barbers sat while clipping. On request, porters wheeled carts loaded with tonic bottles from chair to chair. A phonograph played hit tunes; portable telephones could be plugged in anywhere. Just inside the plate-glass doors, Oakley proudly flicked the switches of an intercommunication system...