Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defection of the .38-caliber pistol in the Philippines as a defense weapon was as much the Government's fault as anyone's. They were ordered from the Colt company with a barrel so overbored that a bullet could be dropped right through the barrel without sticking. Add to this the fact that they were furnished with a quite hard bullet, sharp on the point, it is easy to see why they pierced flesh without delivering the shock they could have given if made blunt or square-shouldered. The English furnished their .455-caliber with a hollow...
...been held back by the metals shortage, especially copper. So the mines of Anaconda, Phelps-Dodge and Miami last week jumped from a sixto a seven-day week. (Kennecott has operated day in, day out for more than a year.) Production increases in the first three companies alone will add perhaps 50,000 tons annually to the U.S. copper supply, an amount equal to 5% of 1940's entire U.S. production...
Dean Kennedy intimated that further talks will be forthcoming, in which there will be announced the results of deliberations intended to add new courses to the schedule of the College and the graduate schools...
...equal opportunity has been the lack of doctors and medical facilities for the greater part of our population. It has been shown that our much-publicized surplus of doctors in urban centers could not begin to take care of those in need of treatment. When to all this we add the consideration that wartime rationing and privation invariably result in a lowering of the public health and often result in plagues, the picture is not made prettier...
...York Central is going to have to add about 60 extra sleeper cars and ten extra day coaches to their trains on each of the three heavy days, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday...