Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affairs." But some were also deeply disturbed over Virginia justice. Finerty was joined before the Circuit Court of Appeals by Edmund Preston, Richmond attorney, member of the State's leading law firm. Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr. granted stay after stay. The Richmond Times-Dispatch declared: "Add the fact that we are in a war for survival in which we are depending heavily for victory on the colored races, and the significance of the Waller case becomes clearer...
...town wharf that day. Villagers were justly pleased with themselves. Said a village physician: "We did a good job. We didn't lose a single survivor-or a single first-aider." The regional director's comment on the local report sounded like Revolutionary days: "I can add no word to this. God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...record as considering that basic cosmetics (powder, rouge, lipstick, cold cream) are "essential"-though favorite brands and esoteric colors and concoctions may disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women); to the extent that it is real "suffering" for the citizen to have to stay at home...
...Heinz Co. (57 Varieties) is going into "large-scale" production of plastic-plywood airplane and glider parts. To this startling announcement the staid, publicity-shy, 73-year-old food processor flatly refused to add a single word. One leaked-out fact: the work will be done on pressure machines formerly used for canning...
Upshot of the debate: the Lords agreed (in principle) to add some $500,000,000 a year to Britain's budget for such family allowances. The Government promised to do something about them as soon as a survey could be completed. Lord Chancellor Simon shifted uncomfortably on the woolsack. Plainly, plump, redoubtable William Temple meant to press politically, as well as spiritually, for the sweeping social and religious reforms he proposed last year at the Malvern Conference...