Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-lynching bill and a bill to extend rent control (with the 15% "voluntary" increase), which expires in February. Universal military training was also due to come up, but its chances of passage looked slim. Even slimmer were the chances that Republican leaders would take any steps to add more economic controls. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said he would introduce a standby meat-rationing bill. Senator Taft is on record for a meat-rationing bill-if needed-but only a severe meat shortage would bring about sufficient support for such a measure. The G.O.P., in the words...
...come to be accepted as the core of liberal aspirations for the immediate future of the country. He plumped for civil liberties, extension of social security, better education, a national health program, preservation of our national resources, higher minimum wages, more houses, continued assistance to farmers--all of which add up to a higher standard of living...
...trust fund for the education of little Patricia Ann Shimer. Grateful citizens of Chambersburg promptly acknowledged the kindness by raising another $3,000 for food for the rationed children of Southampton; the fruit growers of Franklin County stepped forward with the promise of 600 bushels of apples to add to the gift...
Crown Prince Alcihito of Japan was 14 by western count, 16 by Japanese; the Japanese consider themselves a year old at birth, and-like U.S. thoroughbred horses-add a year every...
...Scientist Kinsey and his assistants have gathered 12,214 case histories of U.S. men, women & children. Kinsey himself recorded 7,036 of them. In the 20 more years they expect to spend on the study,† he and his associates will add 88,000 histories, publish eight other volumes. Their first book is based on interviews with 5,300 white males. Answers were recorded in code to avoid embarrassment, and tabulation by punch cards made the work easier...