Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report of the picket lines outside the Manhattan federal courthouse, and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on Judge Medina by Communist sympathizers [TIME, Sept. 5] might well make thoughtful Americans wonder if it is later than they think...
...This bill is a very important step toward a solution to the dollar-shortage problem, the sterling problem and the continuation of our own prosperity," declared Georgia's studious Walter George. "If we do not make every effort to [maintain export trade], we might as well abandon the Marshall Plan and stop wasting our money." After seven days of debate, the Senate was facing a vote on extension of the reciprocal-trade program...
...thing to do was to buy an old car, preferably a '32 or '33 Ford and strip it down to the essentials. With a flair for mechanics and enough money ($1,000 to $2,000), a kid could go on from there, transform his jalopy into a well-engineered hot rod, complete with extra carburetors, lightened flywheel, supercharger and five to ten coats of glistening lacquer...
...India, plain people learned the practical meaning of devaluation when a well-known dollar product, Ovaltine, shot up from 3½rupees to 5 in the bazaars...
...materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above the" terrors and sor rows of modern life as well as above its passing satisfactions...