Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Happy GOPsters agreed that the Treasury, in spite of its equivocation, had advanced cogent arguments in favor of their bill. Whatever the Administration did, Republicans were sure to press for a tax cut. And in an election year, it would be hard for the Administration...
Victor Emmanuel, in a last effort to save his line, decided to abdicate in favor of Umberto. Wearily, he penned his abdication, got the date wrong, corrected it, and paid a notary a 129-lire (15?) fee to register the document. Queen Elena cried. By this time, Italy's politicians professed not to care what he was doing or what his plans were; informed of the impending abdication, Premier Alcide de Gasperi said: "It's not even fourth or fifth on my list of matters of importance...
...opening. But once Orson Welles took it to Broadway, The Cradle had no trouble finding an audience. For if brash and biased, Marc Blitzstein's "play in music" about Steeltown's big bad boss, cringing sycophants and exulting strikers had zip and the Zeitgeist in its favor. It also had a good deal of theatrical novelty: a sceneryless stage that antedated Our Town's; Composer Blitzstein himself at the piano and, now & then, part of the play...
...order for locomotives. They were all diesels-in of them, to cost $21,000,000. Thus, the New York Central marked the quiet revolution which has been going on in the Central-and many another U.S. railroad -since war's end. The revolt is against steam locomotives in favor of oil-burning diesels. Of the 1,176 locomotives which U.S. railroads had on order Dec. 1, only 33 were steam. The rest were diesels...
...help to solve a legal puzzle. In many arid regions, such as the U.S. Southwest, rain falls spottily, bringing good crops to some areas and drought to others nearby. Rainmaking with dry ice dropped from airplanes may change the distribution-perhaps in the Rocking F Ranch's favor...