Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President himself had recommended a straight price-support program for domestic wool-growers, to replace the old program, which was terminated April 15. Congress had drawn up a bill along those lines, then loaded it down with amendments. Majority Leader Charley Halleck had tacked on provisions for import fees and import quotas to be imposed when the President "has reason to believe" that the inflow of foreign wool is harmful to U.S. sheepmen. Specifically because of that amendment the President vetoed...
...Perkins has done many an odd chore. He has cleaned out elephant skulls and put them on exhibition, and removed the scent glands from skunks. In April, along with two Chicago newsmen, he hunted eels by flashlight in the open sewers of a southern Louisiana town. His wastebasket is the hollowed-out foot of an unmanageable elephant that was shot at the St. Louis...
...other hand, U.N. still commanded the respect of statesmen because it was a forum for mustering world opinion. The organization's high point had come in April 1946, when it made the Red Army get out of Persia. Thus, thanks largely to U.N. and its imposing moral force, Persia had a Government free of Russian domination...
Regardless of the Elis' ulterior-motivated publicity about the "experienced Harvards" and the "neophyte Yales," Bolles had only two former Varsity men in the boat when they defeated Princeton and M.I.T. on the Charles in their first race last April. He fretted about their inexperience and about the adverse weather which kept them from coming down to a good rowing weight...
Housing Cheer. The number of new homes started during April showed a substantial increase over any of the first three months of the year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced. The total was 68,700 permanent housing units; that was 1,700 above April 1946, almost 18% above last March. The preliminary estimate for May: 69,000 units...