Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national minimum wage was raised from 40? to 75? an hour last week. The bill signed into law by the President will give an estimated 1,500,000 workers a raise of around $300 million a year. Harry Truman called it "a major victory in our fight to promote the general welfare," and said it "should result in the virtual elimination of the evil of child labor...
...engagement announced, neighbors began to peer in the windows and crowd into the apartment. The Veep exuberantly kissed a matron or two, shook hands all around. Mrs. Hadley's younger daughter Jane came in shyly, and the Veep looped an arm around her waist happily. But he refused to pose with his arm around his lady. "No histrionics," said Barkley. "This is going to be strictly dignified...
...defense also paraded 14 witnesses who said that they would not believe Mrs. McDanal under oath, and also produced what it claimed were pictures of Mrs. McDanal posing nude in a cornfield. The judge refused to admit them, but the defense waved them around carelessly and later, quite a few men came up to look more closely. Said one: "I'll take four copies of that one." Everybody laughed...
...fastest fighter on view in the 1947 displays was (Jane's thinks) the YAK-17, a single-jet plane which looks something like Republic's Thunderjet. Probable maximum speed of the YAK-17: around 650 m.p.h. Jane's also reports a "research" plane of German design with a maximum speed of nearly 685 m.p.h. This is probably the plane which the Russians claim has passed the sonic barrier...
...Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin is several inches shorter than Tito-and is certainly in no position to go around calling him a dwarf...