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Word: vastness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warsaw radio purred: "There is a vast difference between the Marshall Plan and the brotherly help of the U.S.S.R. The U.S.S.R. gives us what we really need. . . ." Moscow had reason to be satisfied, too. Russia was getting, over the next five years, a steady flow of Poland's textiles, sugar, zinc and rolling stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Carnations | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...they worked harder, they would produce more food and make more money. Besides, a well-dressed people would make a better impression on the tourists President Estimé hopes to see flocking to Haiti to share its easygoing life and to visit the brooding ruins of Christophe's vast citadel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Shod, by Order | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...four times as fast as it was finding it. Said Forrestal: if the nation went to war tomorrow, it would be 2,000,000 barrels a day short of its minimum needs (current crude production: 5.3 million barrels a day). Forrestal wanted the U.S. to create a vast new industry to make petroleum out of coal, natural gas and oil shale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Cold Comfort | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Truth About 'Cliffe Girls." Starting magnanimously, he wrote, "Nobody will deny that they're intelligent. A good many of them have fine senses of humor. But," he continued, "when it comes to beauty that Hollywood wouldn't be ashamed of, there are some lookers mixed in among a vast majority of twisted-seamed, straight-haired bespectacled young women who are, aesthetically speaking, nonentities...

Author: By Joan Mcpartiln, | Title: Crime Keeps Pace With Life Force, Ends Cross-Town Feud With 'Cliffe | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...individuals and to our nation as a social democracy, and on the other hand, peace now but the possibility of a German victory and some future threat to the United States as a result, we choose the latter alternative. And we think that here stands with us the vast Army of Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorials, Restraining or Jingoistic, Advised College During Three Crucial Wars | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

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