Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eminently visible job in Europe. ECA money built steel mills in France, brought running water to hill towns in Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
...frantic men & women fought to get to ropes and ladders dangling from the ship's sides. Bashing through doors and portholes of the tiny staterooms, others got out-some naked or in flaming night clothes-to plunge headlong over the side and into the water or try a jump to the pier. There was time to lower only one lifeboat...
...auto workers, electrical workers and rubber workers, to say nothing of John Lewis' coal miners, had been sitting back waiting to see what the board's findings would be. Now that they saw them, they would also have to make up their minds which way to jump. But the nation, only last week facing a strangling strike of 500,000 men in steel, momentarily could breathe a little more easily. It had before it, in the board's report, a comprehensive formula for peace...
...alert Taft machine got an early jump in a fast political maneuver. Ohio ballots now list candidates under the party label so that voters can vote a straight ticket by making one cross at the top of the ballot. Taft people saw the hazard in this for their candidate. The Democratic ticket would be headed by popular, thin-skinned and independent Frank John Lausche, who probably would be running for re-election as governor. Lausche's name was enough to pull thousands of straight party votes so that any Tom, Dick or Joe, running as a Democratic candidate...
Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, determined pursuer of the vitamin-filled life, had no such qualms. He not only celebrated his 81st birthday by making a parachute jump at Dansville, N.Y., but got in a plug for rich, natural foods. He snapped: "You could never jump with a parachute at 81 if you consumed that damned white flour...