Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told them sharply to keep their noses out of things they know nothing about. He noted that the New York chapter of A. Y. C. had condemned U. S. aid to Finland "on the ground that such action was 'an attempt to force America into an imperialistic war.' [Cheers] My friends, that reason was unadulterated twaddle, unadulterated twaddle. . . . [Boos, shushes, dead silence.] That American sympathy is 98% with the Finns in their effort to stave off invasion of their own soil by now is axiomatic. That America wants to help them by lending or giving money to them...
...After high German and British bids for Saudi Arabia's oil were in, Japan bid frantically still higher. Standard bid low but kept reminding the King of what German or Japanese-or even British-agents might soon be doing to disrupt his realm if let in on the ground floor. When he finally closed with Standard, His Majesty exclaimed: "Gentlemen, the Japanese offered me twice as much for one-third of what you now obtain...
Gracting that Mr. James is a clown and comparatively harmless himself, nevertheless he provides a dramatic lesson in the basic techniques of modern dictatorship, and a reminder of the economic sickness of American democracy. It can happen here. Social inequality, economic insecurity--these are the breeding ground of bigger Hitlers than Mr. James. Saddest commentary of all is the perfectly evident fact that one of Mr. Dies' customary floor shows would only serve to inflate such a penny-ante movement as "Yankee-American Action" to grotesque proportions. The body politic, racked with internal disorder, requires as never before a scientific...
...Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink the stub into the ground. Result is that subscribers sometimes have to stoop to get under the wires...
...roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail in the air, something no pursuit ship had ever done before. More mindful of its deadly speed, its paralyzing armament, than of its spraddle-legged look on the ground, proud Bell Aircraft called it "Airacobra...