Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stabilizer Bowles partially placated the auto industry with a boost in car ceilings, to take care of rising wage and material costs. From now on, new car buyers must agree to add the increase, when OPA decides on the amount, to the price of their car. Reflecting auto wage increases, the first boost may be 5%. Price of a Ford Tudor Sedan, for example, would be increased by $45. Eventually, as the new wage policy boosts costs all along the line, automen expect the increases to run as high...
What shall the U.S. do with its $700 million worth of synthetic rubber plants? Last week the Inter-Agency Policy Committee on Rubber,* chairmaned by William L. Batt, laid down a broad program for the care and feeding of this wartime monster which might easily turn into a peacetime white elephant...
...trip, thanks to fellow-passenger Lord Beaverbrook, had been dandy. "He's such a nice man," said the Viscountess, "and he took such good care of me. He . . . kept giving all kinds of orders like 'Get a rug for Her Ladyship' and things like that. It was almost like old times when one had servants traveling with...
Within 15 minutes he had written the words & music of his first song, I Want to Take Care of Mother. By 11:45, when he went on the air for a broadcast, he had written 18, including Nuts to California ("You talk about your grapefruit, so full, so round, so big; they're the kind in Texas, that we feed to the pig."). Dave stopped only to take sandwiches and coffee. At 7:45 p.m.-15 minutes before the deadline-Dave finished his 52nd song. He called it It's Never Too Late to Forgive...
Greenwich House concentrated on improving living conditions first, because, as Mrs. Sim said: "What was the use of bringing art to people who had little soap & water?" Infant care and dental clinics, free milk for babies, diet kitchens, public baths and sports (Gene Tunney did his first boxing in the settlement basement) were added one by one. Over the years, after the soap & water, came the art: a music school, a children's theater, woodcarving, pottery. In 1917 the settlement moved to bigger quarters on Barrow Street. Mrs. Sim agitated for slum clearance, wider streets, parks...