Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jones gets uneasy when Editor Guy Schofield suggests that he drop his column for a while and turn to something else. He did agree to cover part of the Nürnberg trials, but floundered badly among the super criminals, and was as happy as his readers when he got back to his raffish, minor-rogues' gallery...
Holocaust. The company might have paid and let the question drop. But it appealed, and won in the Circuit Court. Then Lamb appealed to the Supreme Court, and won. But he won this time on an entirely different ground-an issue that he had never raised. In a decision handed down by Justice Frank Murphy, the Court found that Judge Picard was wrong to ignore walking time and time spent preparing for work...
With a scandalous clatter, the bottom fell out of New York's butter market last week. The day after Christmas, wholesale butter prices fell on the New York Mercantile Exchange from 84¼? a lb. to 74½?, sharpest drop in many years...
...drop? The new flu vaccine? Unlikely, thought experts; the Army, with fewer troops and fewer troop movements, has given no shots this year; civilian vaccination has not been widespread. Possible explanation: a decline in civilian (and G.I.) travel, fewer mass meetings, an end to factory swing shifts, more staying at home...
...nursery is being used as a model for child-workers from all over the country, who drop in to see how Harvard does it. Teachers-in-training have a chance to try out their classroom education during part of the day, when they assist the regular teachers...