Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other political system show the results we have attained since 1776? It isn't the result of our geographical location. Other parts of the world can reproduce our climate and have vast potential resources. It isn't the stock we came from. So it must be the way we go about it. So why accept "Two Worlds" and allow a totalitarian form of government to exist...
Winter's first major assault, a vast cold air mass from the Arctic, swept across the nation this week. Florida felt the chill fringes of it. In Grand Forks, N. Dak., the temperature dropped to 17° below zero. Around the stark deserted tipples of the coal mines from West Virginia to southern Illinois, a northwest wind whooped. John L. Lewis had a new ally...
...hammer Wyatt hit his own thumb. He quarreled with other agencies, ran afoul of the powerful real estate lobby. Congress had backed down on price ceilings, had failed to enact the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill for low-cost housing. Wyatt went overboard for prefabricated homes, which would use vast quantities of still-scarce sheet steel. When he asked RFC to underwrite this assembly-line program he bumped smack into RFC's roly-poly George Allen (TIME...
...guided missiles which may dominate future wars. The V-2 project (code name "E.W.," for Elektromechanische Werke) was pushed with all the secrecy and urgency which surrounded the U.S. "Manhattan District." The rockets were developed and tested at Peenemünde on the Baltic, and manufactured in a vast underground factory at Nordhausen, east of Kassel...
Under the vast skylight of Briggs cage every afternoon these days, Coach Jaakko Mikkola is busy whipping his 150 man track tam into shape for short but strenuous indoor track program which begins January 15 with the Knights of Columbus in Boston...