Word: damming
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...believe there is more kindliness in England today than in all its history. The fear that the discipline of war would harden the hearts of men and dam social progress has not materialized...
...fact of the matter is that as long ago as 1938, or somewhat before the war started, ALCOA launched a $200,000,000 expansion program. As part of this program, it planned to build a gigantic plant near the Grand Coulee Dam; it applied to Jesse ones for a loan so that it might build the plant, and to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes for a power permit in order to operate it. Mr. Jones was instrumental in the refusal of the loan, and Mr. Ickes saw to it that the power permit, and it requests were granted...
...general public . . ." said General Johnson, "simply does not seem to give a tinker's dam...
...TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby to address a message for them all to their Commander in Chief: "Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Our P-40 is full of holes. Please send us a new one." In Washington Congress proposed a Congressional Medal of Honor for Douglas MacArthur, considered naming a projected TVA dam and a Washington boulevard (now Conduit Road) in his honor...
Heat v. Cold. Blood clots may lodge in the lungs, cause instant death. They may also form in arms or legs, choke off circulation. If they lodge in an artery, they prevent the flow of fresh, oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the limb; if they dam up a vein, they prevent the return of used blood, heavy with body poisons, to the heart. Without proper circulation of the blood to keep them alive, body tissues die, become gangrenous...