Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago: Who bought solid gold shaving bowl selling at $1875 plus tax, minus soap...
City attacks "left the German people with a solid lesson in the disadvantages of war" and grievously hurt the German economy, but it was the campaign against specific industries which brought the temple down. The most effective attacks were the U.S. assaults against synthetic oil plants, which the Germans viewed as catastrophic and which profoundly affected synthetic rubber production, synthetic nitrogen and methanol (necessary for explosives). Attacks on railways and waterways were the decisive blow...
...vote France also gave a solid mandate to middleway socialism. Of 596 seats in the new Assembly, the Socialists and the moderate Popular Republicans, who form France's biggest political bloc, held 60%. By voting for a strong executive, the electorate showed its support of Provisional President Charles de Gaulle. But this swing seemed also a rebuke to the General, a demand for a speedup of the socialistic reforms drafted by the underground and tacitly approved by his Government in the early days of liberation...
...Center is now occupied by the victorious Socialists and Popular Republicans (Mouvement Républicain Populaire). From them De Gaulle gets solid but not uncritical support. Last August the Socialists rejected fusion with the Communists by an overwhelming convention vote (10,112-to-274); thereby they won the support of shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and other petite bourgeoisie. The MRP, emerging from the Resistance, combines Christian and Socialist principles, appeals to the Church and to women (who voted for the first time in French history in the September cantonal elections and who now compose 53% of the electorate...
...Master Braque's Interior, one of the hits of the Autumn Salon, was a solemn rectangle of silence in the general, uproar of the show. Painted almost entirely in black and grey, with a few dabs of orange, its solid, weighty strength made some of the gayer pictures look thin and forced. Braque has been living in unapproachable solitude for the past few years...