Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illness. For four weary years China had dreamed about beating the Japanese by means of some whopping generosity from the democracies. Here, at last, was aid on the scale about which China had dreamed. At current rates of exchange the two loans would add up to almost 13 billion Chinese dollars...
...Hara, Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of the Army & Navy Diocese. Said he: "One sacrifice that many a woman is making today is the postponement of marriage, when she sends her soldier sweetheart away with a smile and a promise to wait, in the thought that she will not add to his burdens the worry of a wife back home...
...will not long remain a record. Cooking on the Congressional stove is a bill giving the Navy $26,500,000,000 (72 Panama Canals) in appropriations and authorizations. This sum will not only cover the cost of repairing and replacing the ships battered and sunk at Pearl Harbor, but add 1,799 assorted craft and some 25,000 planes to the Fleet. It will also serve to make progress payments on about 1,000,000 tons of ships already building...
...reductio ad absurdum lies in the Red Cross' refusal to accept Negro blood donations. To add to these inanities by sending colored troops to Southern training camps is a point of friction that can and should be avoided...
...keynote address on Saturday morning, Raymond Dennett, Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, said that the best course for college community service groups was to continue with their regular social service work and to add any defense work as was necessary or was asked for by the colleges...