Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, ten months to the day from the first atomic explosion, Harry Truman announced that U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission (set up in January to "proceed with the utmost dispatch") would meet on June 14. That will not end the delay: Washington means to wait...
...Wait until next year," he added, "we're going to bat with five cent cigars, and they'll get shorter every inning 'cause we're gonna smoke 'em in between...
...upkeep and improvement of its bases in both the Atlantic and Pacific-most of it to be spent in the Pacific. President Truman, awaiting final disposition of the islands, cut this out of the budget bill. Whatever the Army might ask would be subject to the same policy of wait...
...schedules and running every hour. The famed Heineken Brewery at Amsterdam is opening again. Philips, Europe's greatest exporters of electric bulbs and radio equipment, is operating at 60% of capacity, expects to hit 100% soon. The Dutch, who use bicycles as Americans use autos, may have to wait until 1950 for new ones, and meanwhile will bump along on solid tires over unrepaired streets...
Lean and leisurely John Tinney McCutcheon was crowding his deadline. His mind and drawing board were blank, and the bulldog edition over at the Chicago Tribune would wait just so long. Outside his studio window, there was a promise of fall in the hazy September air. He fell to daydreaming . . . on such a smoky afternoon, back home in Indiana, a boy might gaze at a cornfield studded with tattered golden shocks, and see them turn into Indian tepees. Idly he began to sketch. When the Tribune messenger arrived, he had finished his greatest cartoon. That was 39 years...