Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Debate had split Big Business as it had split party lines. Such men as Ernest Tener Weir of Weirton Steel, who sees no sense in costly plant expansion to make munitions for profits the Government will then confiscate, moved to support Vandenberg. But Washington lobbies were thick with the agents of Big Business, plugging embargo repeal furiously over the fumes of free cigars. And such business-sensitive newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Herald Tribune were hailing their onetime target, Franklin Roosevelt, and sniping anti-repealers...
...main German forces soon arrived, too, and Warsaw was hemmed in on at least two sides. To its defense from the west came Polish divisions retreating in good order out of the big pocket formed around Poznan, where the Nazi attack had been light for fear of harming the thick German population. With other reinforcements from the east, Warsaw's defenders dug in on the Vistula's right bank, lobbing their shells over the city at the gathering Germans...
...cloudy afternoon Dutchmen heard the drumming of war engines as a big flight of bombers sped east across The Netherlands, safe from anti-aircraft fire above a thick overcast. From their course, air-wise Dutchmen (who protested this violation of their neutrality) concluded they were headed for three Nazi naval bases (Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Brunsbüttel), clustered in a 50-mile circle around the North Sea mouth of the Kiel Canal. They were right...
...printer flashes them to newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...
...Heroes this week were a handful of Polish soldiers left in charge of the Westerplatte munitions dump. Under steady bombing and shell fire, they held out as a suicide squad in the thick-walled fortress, replying from its depths with machine gun fire, resolved to blow up the dump and themselves with it before surrendering...