Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas
Paul Howard Douglaswas an American politician and economist. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career, he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 April 1907
CityPhiladelphia, PA
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That's three months of rain falling in one night, and there's no way the ground can soak that up. There will be serious runoff.
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That's true. fresh snow will keep the temperatures 10-15 degrees colder than if it were bare ground. (It is) almost like the ground is being air conditioned. The sun's energy heats the ground, which in turns heats the air.
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I would imagine they would go higher, but it is hard to say.
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One of the things I found vaguely interesting, as a weather geek, is that the snow actually melts from the bottom up.
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We felt very strongly that if we agreed to a regular NLRB election that it was for sure the company was going to stall and it would give them the opportunity to really work the people inside the plant,
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There's really no smoking gun. I'd like to blame it on climate change or global warming, but I can't.
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We are in a new and potentially deadly era for storms, one that demands new technology, new tools. It's not enough to watch TV or listen to the radio anymore. It's a good start, but if you want to maximize your odds of surviving a storm, any storm, you need multiple safety nets. You should never be totally dependent on just one source.
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We've decided construction is our business and that is what we are sticking to.
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It's been 18 to 20 degrees above average for much of Minnesota. You can expect it to be in the 40s most of next week, too.
It's crazy; there just hasn't been any precipitation.
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To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.
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...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off.
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Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.