Word: comly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt more secure last week. With a minimum of red fire, the U.S. Navy commissioned the mightiest fortress in New England's once thin aerial defenses. At Quonset Point, R.I., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay, Commander Andrew C. McFall listened to a few speeches, then took com mand of the Navy's newest and one of its largest air stations. The colors were hoisted, the watch set, and Quonset Point buckled down to work...
...days later Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau told the U.S. the other half. Mr. Morgenthau corralled the Congressional leaders, laid before them a stack of indigestible truths, told them to swallow hard. That afternoon he announced com plete non-partisan agreement on a tax program increasing present taxes one-third, to raise $3,444,000,000 in new revenue. He described the tax program as possibly the largest in world history, estimated that it will produce $12,667,000,000 - two-thirds of the total estimated 1942 expenditure...
...essential war material which Dow Chemical Com pany has just begun extracting commercially from sea water...
...income groups. Hollywood, like Wall Street, "appears to be a veritable astrologer's paradise." Some 20 of the U. S.'s sizable newspapers, chiefly in larger cities, carry astrological columns. U. S. newsstands distribute over a half dozen astrology magazines. Astronomer Bok's com mittee plans a campaign to strengthen all State anti-astrology laws...
...trouble is that John Donne (com plete) is not printed in the U. S. at all, but in England. Impatiently, the Oxford Press awaited a Donne shipment, praying that, like every other Oxford Press shipment so far, this one might elude Nazi submarines and planes...