Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, there were solid practical arguments for a national service act. It would unquestionably speed up lagging enlistments in the women's branches of the armed services. And it would allow workers to be shifted swiftly from places where production is being cut back to those where more hands are urgently needed...
...Baylor University Hospital blood bank in Dallas has been generous to Billy. Since September it has given him 227 pints of plasma. Last week, its blood bank dangerously depleted, the hospital decided it could allow the little boy no more blood unless donors would give enough blood to replenish its bank...
...confinement expenses (some plans will not pay for a child born less than eleven months after the subscriber joins the plan). Last year the plans paid for the birth of 200,000 babies. Most hospitalization members are employe groups of big companies, clubs or unions. But some plans allow individuals to join. (Few give individual joiners maternity benefits.) Only ineligibles: people over 65, the chronically ill, mental cases. Special allowances for such patients and confinement cases are usually made where 75% or more of an employe or club group signs...
...result, the subject cannot be resolved into an academic controversy. It is our objective, in this case, to attempt to acquaint our readers with the basic elements of pure Scuttlebutt and allow you to draw your own conclusions...
Never Mind the Weather. Neither snow nor mud stop the dogs or their admirers. On sticky Saturdays tracks are coated with tar. Crowds of 15,000-all that wartime laws allow-relax in covered stands. Races take only half a minute over the 525-yd. track, with all six dogs sometimes finishing within i/io of a second...