Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panacea. If subsidies can be shrewdly applied to stabilize the cost of living, the Administration will have begun to win an important home-front victory, for it will have done all that Labor can ask for by way of holding essential prices in line...
Nelson to the Hill. But the main attack on Nelson came from Capitol Hill, where the Truman Committee had begun to delve into the rubber and 100-octane programs. When War Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson charged that the rubber program had caused a shortage of 100-octane gasoline for planes, and thus delayed all-out bombing of Germany, the public had thought he was after the Rubber Czar, Bull Bill Jeffers. But when the Truman Committee dug, they hardly noticed Jeffers; the real quarry turned out to be Nelson...
...Department of Agriculture announced last week that she is laying one-fourth of an egg more a month, and that she produced a billion more eggs last month than in March 1942. But it is not enough; she must not only lay but hatch more. She has already begun. 1943 hatchings are up 16% over last year...
...heard history made by "a colorless voice." It was Clement Attlee reading the one-sentence law which declared that for the duration all persons and property were at the disposal of the state. Said H. G. Wells "rather happily" at lunch next day: "The revolution in England has now begun...
Work on the building, a former private home, was begun early in March, and with the help of a group of Cambridge women and faculty wives who canvassed homes, the house has now been furnished to a practical point of occupancy, although tenants must being their own linen...