Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income-tax purposes, married persons living apart as the result of act of law or by mutual agreement will be regarded as single persons; on the other hand, a single person may be the head of a family, and thus be entitled to an allowance as head of a household such as is allowed to a married person who heads a family, if the single person maintains a household and supports in it "one or more individuals who are closely connected with him by blood relationship, relationship by marriage or by adoption, and whose right to exercise family control...
...distribute its manpower into 65,000,000 jobs ,000,000 with the armed services, 20,000,000 in war production, 12,000,000 on the farms, 22,000,000 for irreducible civilian work. The 4-way strains of these huge forces have been wrenching the U.S. economy apart. Clear purpose of the Wadsworth-Austin measure was to challenge an Administration which has been studying the problem, but shying away from a tangle with Congress...
...Army had come to capturing Stalingrad. In September the Germans actually occupied the central part of the city. Concentrating their power in the industrial districts, they then stormed into the Stalingrad tank factory, but failed to drive on to the Volga. Often the opposing lines were only 15 yards apart. Most of the fighting was done with hand grenades, one Russian division using more than 100,000 in a single month's fighting...
...proper showcase for its stars, Paramount has wisely revived the variety show, long neglected by Hollywood, but as tremendous care was taken on every second of the picture, it doesn't fall apart as it so easily might. The only real bringdown is the blatantly banal patriotic finale, which you can miss without regrets...
...languages and their literature, history and art, but there is still little to be learned in American colleges about social and economic conditions in Asia, where more than half the people of the world live. There is still almost nothing taught about southeastern Asia and modern India, and yet, apart from the obvious military and political need for more objective information about regions which have been brought close to us by modern trade and transportation, there is much of intellectual interest, to be discovered from the experience of these ancient civilizations. In China and Japan there is a rich store...