Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zero hour came at 3:59 p.m. on the second day of the debate. A buzz of nervous conversation swept through the galleries, over the floor, died. The House was still with the dead silence of excitement, for the Representatives did not know what outcome to expect: the vote might overturn the Administration's foreign policy...
...There is only one means, Stalin said, to reduce to zero the present German superiority in tanks and thus radically improve the position of our armies. This method consists not only in increasing several times the output of tanks in our country but also in sharply increasing the output of anti-tank guns, anti-tank aircraft, anti-tank rifles, anti-tank grenades and trench mortars...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's zero-hour efforts to avert a walkout of 53,000 captive coal miners on Monday appeared to have failed tonight as conferences between steel executives and mine leaders collapsed with no settlement of their union shop controversy...
Winter had come. In the far north it had come with sub-zero weather that made gun barrels so cold they burned flesh...
...track man to run a half-mile, bald, burly Arthur Starnes plummeted down through miles of air last week. During that minute and 56 seconds he dropped five and a half miles (29,300 feet), hit a speed of 190 m.p.h., felt the temperature change from 46° below zero (Fahrenheit) to mild 60° above. When he cracked his chutes at 1,500 feet, he was pretty sure he had had an experience that would not only keep green the name of Arthur Starnes but somehow help national defense...