Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pact nations by $500 million, argued doggedly that the U.S. could not run the risk of bleeding itself white for Europe. "To the extent that we weaken America," he declared, "to the extent that we weaken the strength of our arm, we undoubtedly cut the life out of the whole North Atlantic community...
...these were minor irritations. Out of the excavation on Oliver Avenue would rise a 39-story skyscraper, the Mellon-U.S. Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision of a city cleared of drab relics of half a century, cured...
...esthetic abortion, a municipal hovel, a mining town on a vast scale. It gobbled up people the way it gobbled up iron ore-people with the names of Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia. Some 1,000,000 of them lived and worked in the city's whole industrial complex, some 700,000 lived within the city's limits...
...Floods, No Smog. The air had been fairly well cleared of smoke-Pittsburghers were sharply aware of that. There was 39% more sunlight: a white shirt could be worn decently a whole day. Locomotives were allowed by law to give off nothing worse than No. 2 smoke (not as white as No. 1, but not nearly as black as No. 4). Householders were forced to burn smokeless fuel. When fog settled over Pittsburgh, it was no longer smog...
...estimates were that 60,000 Pittsburghers needed low-rent housing. The best Pittsburgh could hope for was adequate housing by 1970. R. K. Mellon, Davy Lawrence and the others maintained that first things came first. Industrial Pittsburgh had to be rescued first; that was the foundation of the whole town's economy...