Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Action. There was virtually no treatment for cholera 45 years ago, little public health cooperation. But last week a vast machine, reaching from Russia to the U.S., was in efficient action. Troops sealed off the infected areas; cinemas were closed; new water wells were dug. Two thousand doctors began the slow and dangerous task of mopping up the disease...
...parity index would be changed to include the cost of hired farm labor and reflect the increased mechanization of farms. The new parity index, said Secretary Anderson, would discourage grain growing, encourage meat raising. Thus, Secretary Anderson hopes to cut down the vast commodity surpluses that have swamped...
...beast would often set off towards him at the fastest gallop, meanwhile, by one of his tricks, causing me to measure my length in the intervening wastes of snow and sand, and there abandoning me, would arrive, the cynosure of all eyes, the solitary half-centaur moving through this vast expanse, panting and foaming, in front of the great...
...Half-Centaur. "... A polar cold prevailed, and the air was thick with fog of the texture of a polar bear's pelt. Out of these unfathomable, and therefore vast, spaces of frozen fur, of white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...
...vast transcontinental distance which separated this week's national conventions of the CIO and AFL is strictly coincidental in terms of organized labor's unity in the coming countrywide elections. On the surface the unions may appear a long way apart. CIO's president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...