Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the House also: ¶Rejected a bill to increase the pay of everybody in the armed services except recruits, along lines recommended by a civilian commission, after a year's study. Cost: $350 million the first year. Total monthly pay of a major general has risen only 11% ($805 to $895) since 1908 while a private's base pay has been boosted almost 350% (from $18 to $80). But since the new bill favors the brass, a group of ex-G.I.s in the House raised such a fuss that it was sent back to committee...
...first three days of the Big Four meeting in Paris. The mood carried over into the working week's one big social interlude-a state dinner given by French President Vincent Auriol for 40 top delegates and their wives. A military quartet played Debussy. Everybody wore evening clothes except Vishinsky, who showed up in a dark blue lounge suit. One of his aides apologized: "We worked so hard up to the last minute, the Minister had time only to change his shirt. We are always working, you know. In that respect we live on a plane different from that...
Inactive since 1933 and unsealed for years, Colombia's snow-capped Purace Volcano seemed just the place for an adventurous outing. From the high school at Popayan 24 miles away, 18 students and a truck driver set off one morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...
...Except in the southwest, FORTUNE found, seniors are talking less & less about money. One business recruiter reported that he went through 30 interviews without once hearing a senior mention salary. "Forty-nines simply will not talk of the future in terms of the dollar," says FORTUNE. "In terms of the Good Life, however, they are most articulate...
...three years after France fell, private art collectors for both Hitler and Goring gnashed about in search of the hidden treasure. Finally somebody tipped the Gestapo, and the collection, except for 49 paintings which the Louvre managed to keep, was carted off to Germany...