Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contrite Heart. In Wichita Falls, Tex., a hard-pressed citizen beat up his wife, then repentantly drove her to the police station where she had him jailed...
...learned of the "peace offer" from Moscow. Joseph Stalin had dug into his mail sack of questions indefatigably asked by U.S. news correspondents. He picked out a tempting set sent in by I.N.S. Correspondent J. Kingsbury Smith, representing William Randolph Hearst. As a result, Hearstling Smith had a news beat, and Stalin had a good propaganda story circulated for him by the free U.S. press...
Last July Mrs. Turley began feeling "queer." In October she consulted Dr. William Ellis Jr. At first he thought she had a tumor, but in December he heard the fetal heart beat and knew that she was pregnant. The baby was born prematurely a fortnight...
Double Effort. To build up their reserves and beat the shortage, the utility men were well into a $5 billion expansion program, the biggest in their history. Example: California's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was spending $500 million on expansion, part of it to transmit power from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...
...Freshmen Beat Andover...