Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People. As to civil rights, the platform recommended prompt legislation "to end [the] infamy" of lynching; and urged abolition of the poll tax. The embarrassing point might be made that the 80th Congress had shown no great eagerness to tackle such civil-rights legislation. But the G.O.P. pledge would heighten the embarrassment of Democrats when they came to write their own plank...
...Civil-rights legislation (antilynching, anti-poll tax and federal FEPC bills...
What had caused the awful trouble aboard Flight 624 might never be known. There was no survivor; parts of bodies were found 450 feet from the crash.* The Civil Aeronautics Board's investigators had almost nothing to go on. Some witnesses at the scene said at first that the plane had been trailing smoke; then they were not so sure. All that was left of the plane were a few large hunks of engines, a few propeller blades, some jagged chunks of fuselage...
...employers. They are always short of domestic help, seldom satisfied with what they have. Their sternness, plus the attraction of jobs in factory and store, long ago began to whittle down the supply of Canadian maids who could turn out tasty meals, dust in the corners and keep a civil tongue...
Though it is one of the smallest airlines under Civil Aeronautics Board supervision (the terminal points of its network covering the six main islands are only 350 miles apart), Hawaiian Airlines' trolley tactics have made it one of the most consistent moneymakers among U.S. lines. It has been in the black all but one of the last 14 years, and last year earned $186,469 on a gross of $3,353,910. It is also one of the safest lines under CAB, having carried 1,300,000 passengers 200,000,000 miles without a fatality...