Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Theodore Roosevelt once made a crack which summed up U. S. policy in Latin America in the days of Manifest Destiny: "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also." Last week Franklin Roosevelt, fast losing the sunburn he acquired in the Caribbean not far from the Panama Canal, may well have foreseen trouble for his Good Neighbor Policy in the tiny Republic of Panama...
Died. Hal Kemp, 36, crack swing band leader; three days after he was injured in an automobile collision; in Madera, Calif...
...time the Great Lakes opened for ore traffic last March, steelmen had made their forecast of the year's demand by letting the price of ore crack (the cracker: Henry Ford) for the first time in steel history. A month later, they dropped the price of steel by $4 a ton too. Their hope was to stay above their break-even point of 55% of capacity. By November they were not only at 96% of capacity, but confronted by an unfamiliar shortage in their coke and ore supplies. They even found themselves accused of not having capacity enough...
...Boltz was a tall (5 ft. 11 in.), gaunt (140 lb.), begoggled man with close-cropped greying hair and parchmentlike skin which had a tendency to chap and crack in winter time. He had a large nose, deeply indentured cheeks, an exaggeratedly erect carriage. His walk was peculiar: legs stiff, knees high, feet thrown toward the outside and brought down hard on each heel-a modified civilian goose step. He usually wore high brown shoes of English make, white shirts with starched bosoms and cuffs. His voice (deep, resonant, deliberate) and demeanor were those of a parson...
...Owen, a tall, rangy, bushy-haired newspaperman, who was born on the border of Wales 35 years ago and calls himself Sudeten Welsh. Nine years ago, after building himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen at his desk some 19 hours a day exploded in a series of blistering editorials, blasting...