Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the laws of supply & demand are permitted to operate, fluctuations in the corn-hog ratio keep the corn supply and number of hogs in automatic balance. Under the Agriculture Department-OPA rules, they have moved so far apart that only a major hog liquidation can restore any semblance of order. Thanks to the growing feed shortage, this liquidation is now beginning...
...walk, or, if need be, march together in harmony and in accordance with the moral and political conceptions to which English-speaking peoples have given birth . . . all will be well. If they fall apart and wander astray from the lines of their destiny, there is no end or measure to the miseries and confusion which would mark modern civilization...
...Kirkham, Navy plastic surgeon, thought it over. When a man's eyes, ears or mouth are burned shut, when his nose or jaw is shot away, plastic surgery can usually restore the face. But the process sometimes takes seven or eight operations, weeks or months apart. Meanwhile the disfigured men usually prefer to stay out of sight in darkened wards. Jack Dawn's "inlays," however, could make many men appear normal between operations. Last week, under Kirkham's eye, a department of prosthesis* was being organized at the hospital. Besides designing new faces, by way of occupational...
...modernization of the armed forces along the lines he had vainly preached .for two decades before the fall of France. General Henri Honore Giraud had agreed in principle, but he wanted control of the scope and tempo of reform. Over these issues the negotiations deadlocked while the Generals kept apart. Then, one evening in the quiet of his home, General Georges Catroux brought De Gaulle and Giraud together again...
...graves are being dug now by bulldozers-there is no time nor labor available to dig them with shovels. The bulldozers plow back & forth until a space seven feet deep has been scooped out, which is long enough to place eight bodies 18 inches apart. Then into the collective grave small one-foot deep individual graves are scooped out by shovel. Thus, each man lies with seven of his comrades...