Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World Citizen Garry Davis had an ambitious scheme to defy national boundaries, but it fell through. He was set to address a meeting in England from a hovering helicopter, but all available French helicopters, officials assured him, were too busy spraying insecticide against beetles...
...clock in the Cháteau de la Muette struck 12, Cripps was still droning on, and the old payments scheme had expired. No new agreement had been reached...
...farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future on it and knew it. Said he: "For me, it'll mean either a palace or a backhouse...
...tear off a jagged corner of the page; when a murderer is convicted, the newspaper will print the "winning" number and the tipster can present the missing piece of paper and claim his $5,000 reward. The Los Angeles Mirror (TIME, June 13) has copied the Sun-Times scheme...
Though the weather holds most ozoners down to a 30-week season, except in such places as California and Florida, some install portable electric heaters in each car. This season an engineer has stepped forward with the last word-an air-conditioning scheme that will keep the cars not only cozy against wintry blasts but cool and dry in the August heat...