Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shipowner Dodero has long wanted to start his own airline connecting Buenos Aires and Montevideo and Asuncion (now connected by his ships). To do so, Dodero tried unsuccessfully to buy U.S. planes in 1943. In England last summer the reception was warmer. Dodero was royally wined & dined. He got the wholehearted blessing of BOAC, Pan Am's most determined foreign competitors. Dodero bought four of Short Brothers' Sunderlands. This week the U.S. helped also. It allotted Dodero two surplus DC-45. Eventually, Dodero plans to buy at least six more planes, fly to Europe in competition with...
Literary Cockle-Warmer...
...most experts agree that mongooses would be a disaster to the warmer parts of the U.S. In 1900, Congress passed a law prohibiting their immigration...
...Warmer. The shortage of anthracite coal was over. Robert V. White, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. (last year's production: 6 million tons, v. 2.5 million in 1938), warned the coal industry that within two or three months it "will have so much anthracite it may embarrass them...
Haldane thinks that man may expect "bigger and better mountain ranges-and bigger and better earthquakes-in the future than in the past." He adds that the earth will continue to get warmer for about a billion years...