Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked the skeptics, if gestation went on so long, why did Penny Diana weigh only...
...world's tight trade combinations, the British-controlled diamond cartel is the best textbook example of how to control production and fix prices. U.S. businessmen have long been aware that if this cartel could be splintered, diamonds might become cheap enough to: 1) weigh down their wives' fingers; 2) drastically cut the cost of diamond drills, grinding wheels and other industrial tools. Impressed by these facts, Attorney General Francis Biddle last week set out to break up the cartel...
...held this issue open until 4:15 Wednesday afternoon te give TIME'S editors time to weigh our correspondents' reports, integrate the last-minute news with our stacks of advance research and write an election report that would be complete and straight and in perspective. And then it was up to our production and distribution men to make up for this almost-a-day-and-a-half delay...
Massachusetts. Republican Governor Leverett Saltonstall, running for the Senate, was so popular throughout his state that last week a Democratic politico commented: "They won't count his votes, they'll weigh...
Rations. Jungle-fighting Japs can carry a 15-day supply of rice, which they mix with fish, bamboo shoots, water ferns, etc., but U.S. soldiers must tote monotonous K rations-and a 15-day supply would weigh 38½ pounds. Hence rations often have to be dropped in the jungle from planes, with the consequent danger that the enemy may spot the locations and gauge the strength of U.S. columns...