Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This grim prospect had been brought closer by the galloping inflation, by the political bankruptcy of the Queuille government, and by the Communist-called coal strikes which were costing France $3,000,000 a day-almost exactly as much as she was getting from EGA. Overshadowing these factors was the growing realization of Frenchmen that the world conflict between Russia and the West could not be sidestepped. Frenchmen now applied this new view of the world struggle to their own national problems. The bright fiction of a "third force" between Communism and its opponents was dying hard...
...Closer cooperation with the Medical School might also bring about economies in the management of Stillman Infirmary. In 1946-47 more than $141,000 out of a total expenditure of $423,000 went to maintain a large, year-round staff at Stillman. Ninety percent of the time, more than half of Stillman's beds are empty, and seldom is the whole staff busy. As the committee points out, the large staff is a worthwhile form of insurance against epidemics that should not be given up. But the Hygiene Department has given no conclusive reasons why the permanent staff at Stillman...
...Line Drawn. The Southerner talks about his personal solicitude for the Negro, but to the Northerner it seems much closer to the solicitude of the master for his slave than to the friendliness of neighbor toward neighbor. What most Southerners seem to deny the Negro is human dignity, even in such small ways as refusing to call them "Mr." or "Mrs." "You've got to keep niggers in their place," they...
...closer election day drew, the busier the Department of Justice's antitrust division became. Last week, on the heels of its suit against the Big Four meat packers (TIME, Sept. 27), the trustbusters went after two oldtime targets, the Aluminum Co. of America and E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...opening of the House offices and the relaying of this news to House members brought closer the eventual emptying of the temporary barracks in the Indoor Athletic Building. Assistant Dean Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44 said last night that "the number of vacancies is growing rapidly...