Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bengal's capital, Calcutta, thousands are still dying of hunger. Grim, hardworking men of Auchinleck's Army, aided by official and private agencies, belatedly distribute what food they can get. It does not add up to much-half a pound of grain per mouth per day. Many thousands of Indians, because of debility and disease, are beyond such help. But last week an improvement was noticed: famine deaths in Calcutta had fallen from over 200 to about 100 daily...
...showing Clark Gable, with his ears and wings, and the Air Forces O.C.S. down at Miami. Captain Gable gave a long spiel about the toughness of the course, stating that the bottom ten per cent fail, so the Air Forces officer has to be good. What he forgot to add was that the top ten come to Harvard to the A.A.E. Stat School...
...balzing journalistic crusade against the forces of Evil in the town as personified by a crooked (-onely-don't-worrry-dear-reader-he-reforms-in-the-end-) politician, and his even crackeder cronies, one triangle (eternal), one father-and-son squabble, numerous fights (gun, fist, and umbrella), and, to add that necessary punch line, a gala torchlight parade to the local hoosegow...
Once the committee reports, the nation will get another shot of "controlled inflation." The Administration will probably permit a general wage increase of 6 or 7%, will then try to hold that line with some new bulwark. The new wages will add nearly $5,000,000,000 to the nation's payroll, will give the cost of living another boost by raising purchasing power and manufacturing costs (e.g., the Lewis raise will force coal prices up an estimated...
...weeks to phrase his 176-word Senate Resolution for international cooperation. For ten days, insisting it should be stronger, the B2H2 Senators had hammered at it.* Then came the Moscow agreement. Both Illinois' Scott Lucas and California's Sheridan Downey had the happy thought: Why not add the words of the pact to the Connally Resolution? Tom Connally was won over; so were the B2H2 supporters. The deadlock was broken...