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Word: pail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week a familiar spectre of the U. S. countryside had thrown off his shroud, picked up his dinner pail, gone back to work. The ghost town was coming to life. Field representatives of the Defense Advisory Commission, notebooks in hand, scurried through cobwebby, long-idle factories in Ohio and Illinois, dying mining and industrial towns in western Pennsylvania. Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, a lieutenant of Commissioner Sidney Hillman, released to manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Ghost Towns Past & Future | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Author Lyle foresaw "that Germany would try to become self-sufficient in order to head off the effects of a blockade in World War II. "Close scientific tab was kept on every garbage pail. War substitutes . . . were continued. . . ." Other Lyle predictions: ^ German mastery of the art of propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Propaganda, 1918 Style | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Elected Dean of Yale's Law School was Ashbel ("Pail"-from ashpail) Green Gulliver. Of Dean Gulliver's three immediate predecessors, two (Thomas Walter Swan and Charles Edward Clark) are now judges of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the third (Robert Maynard Hutchins) is president of University of Chicago. Under them, Yale's Law School rose to top rank, today vies with Harvard's for the distinction of being the most illustrious law school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale Week | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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