Word: contains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illinois's freshman Republican Calvin Dean Johnson discovered and last week deplored on the House floor the fact that New Testaments sent to servicemen overseas contain a foreward by the President: "As Commander in Chief I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces...
When the gas coming from each end of the magnet was analyzed, that from the north pole was found to contain the most oxygen. Professor Ehrenhaft thinks that oxygen "bears a magnetic charge" like the north pole and was therefore repelled. He calls such charged particles "magnetic ions," compares them to electric ions...
...Russian-language broadcast by the Finnish radio last week underscored Helsinki's dilemma: "Finland wants peace and is willing, to make peace with Russia. . . . What concerns Finland is that . . . unconditional surrender should contain certain conditions satisfactory to Finland. . . . Finland certainly cannot plunge blindly into peace negotiations...
Completed articles will be paid for by the Government at contract prices. Money due on unfinished work may be settled by agreement between the contractor and contracting official. Settlements may contain a "reasonable allowance for profit...
...stores. In Manhattan, swank Saks Fifth Avenue stayed open three Thursday nights in a row, "practically by request," and reported that customers packing breathlessly into their usually roomy elevators had been heard to exclaim: "Gee, this is just like Macy's." But Macy's, which seemed to contain most of Greater New York's population, calmly took on 11,000 extra employes, calmly took full-page ads to plug itself as "a late shopper's paradise...