Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. When some 2,000 merchants squeezed into Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania for the 34th annual conference of the National Retail Dry Goods Association last week, they agreed that there would be no critical shortages this year on dry goods dealers' shelves. But they were quick to add that customers would not be able to get exactly what they wanted, exactly when they wanted it; the war was still on. Drygoodsmen, by consensus...
Tired, aging Premier Bonomi was not seeking to add to his burdens. A volunteer army, functioning side by side with Italy's regular Army, would undoubtedly be a burden of major proportions. But the Government's demand might goad the unwilling Allies into giving Italy the enhanced military and political status it had been vainly seeking for months. For Premier Bonomi, as for the leftists, the volunteer army was a political weapon...
...countrymen called him "L.G.," and there were many who would add "the man who won the last war." Three generations of his neighbors in Caernarvon village had known him as "the little Welsh wizard," still talked of him as a statesman in his prime. But David Lloyd George, 82 years old this month, realized that 54 straight years in Britain's House of Commons was enough, and said so. A grateful government rewarded him with an earldom...
Since 1939, the Advertising Research Foundation has polled readers of 73 U.S. newspapers, asking about every single story and ad in one issue of each paper: "Did you read it?" By last week the Foundation had a lot of facts to add up. Striking an average for all 73 papers, it found that the following percentage of men & women had read at least one item in the following departments...
Does all this add up to postwar pilotless cargo planes, shooting through the stratosphere at inhuman speeds and heights? The engineers who have developed the automatic devices think not. They believe that for some time to come it will be necessary for a pilot, to go along to correct the machines' mistakes or inadequacies. But the pilot will not have much else...