Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worth five cents any more. In a survey of Manhattan, the Daily Mirror found that a candy bar cost 7?, shoelaces were two for 15?. In a penny arcade, slot-machine psychoanalysis was 2? throw. Quipped one shopkeeper, overhauling his price lists on patent medicines: "If you experience stomach distress due to hyperacidity, it will now cost...
...snow storm began, 50,000 cattle were still in danger, hundreds of ranchers were still living on black coffee, whiskey and sandwiches, still fighting their battle against the elements. Army planes scoured the prairies, dropped skis and supplies to isolated families who tramped out distress signals in the snow. There were no reports from sheepmen, who follow their flocks for weeks at a time. But Coloradoans knew that eventually, as after every heavy snow storm, dead sheepherders would be found where they had fallen, with their storm-driven flocks...
Penalties at Home. The distress went deep. Public institutions, many of which had been on short rations to conserve their meat, were now down to the end of supplies. Hospitals, unable to give their patients proper diets (two Boston hospitals began to serve horse meat), pleaded with Washington and local OPA offices for help. They got a promise of it - a new OPA formula by which suppliers are required to furnish the same percentages of meat to hospitals and other institutions as they did in the same period of 1944. If the suppliers failed to meet the quotas, they would...
Meanwhile, thousands of old decrees and vise-tight police controls left Brazilian social and economic distress unrelieved. Rents continued to rise like the new skyscrapers. And still unsolved were the massive problems of feeding the people, stopping inflation...
...babbled: ". . . no insoluble divergence. Subsequent discussions will explain these questions more clearly." An emergency Communist line was appearing, to the effect that Russia was merely trying to keep perfidious Albion's claws off the Ruhr. French Communists would have to take comfort from the thought that their present distress was only a tactical interlude in Communism's grand strategy, and that whatsoever benefited Mother Russia would benefit all her Communist children...