Word: zero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieut. General Achille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party, who for eight years has stood close enough behind Benito Mussolini to tickle his shoulder blades with a stiletto. With sense of humor zero and self-confidence unlimited, Fascist Starace earned the nickname "Pantherman" by feats of physique-jumping a horse over a car, pole vaulting, diving over parallel bars, plunging through rings of fire. In his gaudy office, where he is protected by an always-loaded, pearl-handled revolver and by a solid gold Virgin, he has thought up many a mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished...
...rescuers found nothing. Captain W. W. Kuhne of American Export Line's Excambion docked at Boston and snorted: "The whole thing sounds fishy! . . . Very heavy seas were running. It was pitch-dark. Visibility was almost zero. In my opinion no submarine could have operated successfully...
...farmers of Matanuska Valley, after four years' uneven struggle against mounting debts for machinery and equipment supplied by the Government, prepared to reap the best harvest in years and write off some of their obligations, an Arctic blast sent the mercury down to 10° below zero. Potatoes froze in the field, 80% of the grain stood in the field, unharvested and ruined, acres of market produce were destroyed, and under a foot and a half of snow the Valley lay in white, stricken silence...
...carpets, the U. S. produces not a bit. All of it is imported. Chief U. S. supplier in 1937 was Argentina with 28,000,000 lbs., and China was second with 20,000,000. Because of the Japanese war, China's exports to the U. S. are now zero. Because of war in Europe, other suppliers of carpet wool have had their entire clip embargoed...
WASHINGTON--Big guns of the Senate's isolationist bloc opened a zero-hour attack on the Administration's Neutrality Revision Bill tonight as leaders of both factions forecast a final vote in the Upper House this week...