Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meanwhile, steel scrap prices, having climbed during the past three months to their highest level in 30 years, showed a sign of receding. In the key Pittsburgh area, the price of heavy melting scrap in one large sale dropped $2 a ton, down to $40. The widespread prospects of further drops from recent "fantastic" highs, said the weekly Iron Age, "gives steel producers hope that present steel price levels can be maintained...
...Live Devil. "There is, unmistakably, a great uneasiness abroad in American Protestantism-a widespread concern about the Protestant future in this country. Much of that concern seems to be focused on the Catholic Church...
Signs of "an internal revolution within the Council" were cited by Weld as contributing to the greater expenditures. "The effects of the new constitution, the growing importance of widespread student interest, development of student participation on committees" show that activities have "taken on a wider scope," Weld said...
...tick families. In dozens of varieties they infect man with diseases that are often fatal: Kenya typhus, South African tick-bite fever, Bullis fever, Russian encephalitis, the Q fevers, tularemia (rabbit fever), tick paralysis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This summer, in southern Maryland, Texas, and other tick-infested areas, widespread experiments in spotted fever vaccination are being tried...
...servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...