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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, he was up at 4 a.m., in time to watch the dawn patrol take off. Through the long morning and most of the afternoon he missed no part of the show. That evening the President was back aboard the Williamsburg, poring over a batch of administrative work...
Businessmen last week took a deep breath, and looked apprehensively at the first big batch of first quarter earnings. Then they relaxed somewhat. Despite the steel and coal strikes, rising costs and OPA ceilings, many a company had managed to earn a heart-warming amount of folding money. One big reason was that consumer spending for goods and services in the first quarter, according to a Commerce Department estimate, was at the record rate of $120 billion a year (1945 total: $103.6 billion...
...took a bootleg murder to get "foreigners' " names in Cleveland's big dailies in those days. The city's 36 nationality groups lived together as hostile neighbors. One day in 1926, Andrica called on Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Scripps-Howard Press. He brandished a batch of scribbled items, registered a heavily accented complaint...
Feminine Touch. In Port Douglas, Australia, a horned, buoy-like object on the beach, attacked energetically by a woman with a hammer, yielded a fine batch of clinging oysters; later, towed offshore by a mine-disposal squad, yielded a detonation that shook every building in town...
...closed out last week, and its last batch of prisoners shipped to other centers, ugly stories came to light. Tear gas had been used frequently; authorities argued that this was the "most humane" way of treating mobs. There had been a riot in which prisoners were shot. There had been brutality by the guards, and mass punishment for trivial offenses. Examples: exposure in freezing weather on a windy hill; confinement of 15 men for 36 hours in a 6-by-10-ft. "hole" where they could neither sit nor stand erect. Reported an education officer...