Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office included a grey-gowned businessman, a woman soothing a black-diapered baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants. Trim in an open-necked, short-sleeved white shirt, Chiang listened like a good ward boss to his visitors' problems. The businessman had a complaint about taxes; the laborer vehemently reported that though the rubber goods plant where he worked was well stocked with raw materials, the boss had decided to close down rather than sell his products at the new ceiling prices...
...radio's sins, Woodward has a typically British complaint: "By adding to speech, the BBC has lessened the amount of desirable silence in the world...
...schools had one common complaint: too many students. In many a U.S. city and town, schools would operate in two shifts. Youngsters would be going to school in cafeterias, churches, and prefabs -and no immediate relief in sight. Said a Detroit school official: "It will be tough through...
...Complaint Dept. In Colorado Springs, G. E. Dell recovered his stolen 1939 sedan with a surly note from the thief: "Your car ain't no damn good...
Kaiser had another complaint. White had refused to let Kaiser set foot on his new property until after midnight Aug. 31 (when Republic's interim lease expired). WAAdministrator Larson confirmed this. White, he said, had told him: "It's going to give me a lot of pleasure to make it tough for those bastards...