Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuation of Service Fund collections begun at registration, the drive at this time will spare all those who have contributed earlier this year, Council President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, declared last night...
...million living U.S. veterans of three wars, who will get V.A. doctoring this year. Five hundred thousand of them will be in V.A. hospitals. The annual medical bill: $500 million. And V.A.'s medical care of most of the veterans of World War II has only begun. In an openhanded mood at the war's end, Congress awarded all veterans, under certain conditions, free hospital care for the rest of their lives for any ailment whatsoever. V.A. estimates that its peak hospital load (if there are no more wars) will not come till...
First A-Bomb Plants. The tense problem of the atomic bomb is naturally bothering the Soviet high command. Russia has the knowledge-but she has not yet brought manufacture of the bomb to an industrial level. Already, however, the Soviet Union has begun to build the first three plants for the production of A-bombs. They are in eastern Siberia and will be ready to begin turning out bombs in some 12 to 18 months...
Aware of this danger, the Soviet General Staff has begun a major undertaking on the Caspian shores: they are erecting a gigantic metal screen, something like an enormous Faraday cage, which would prevent the radioactive effect of the bombs from reaching...
They ran into a mud wall with the play they had chosen--Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon." The Dramatic Club didn't exactly tear down the goal-posts with its fig-leaved presentation of "Adam the Creator," either, but the competition hadn't really begun in those early days--the two groups even offered each other helpful hints from time to time. It wasn't until the heady aroma of "Saint Joan" began to fill the local columns and airwaves that the HD worries began...