Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copenhagen, the Baptist World Alliance had wound up its meeting (the first since 1939) on a lofty note. The 5,000 delegates from 49 countries adopted a ringing manifesto: "It is our first duty to extend the rights of conscience to all people, irrespective of their race, color, sex or religion...
Sixteen teams have been lined up for the open doubles to extend it to the four round limit...
Pudgy Henry Kaiser, by his own testimony before the committee, had bustled into Washington with a hatful of ideas. One of them paid off. It was a fleet of baby flattops to extend U.S. air power across the Atlantic. As much as anything, his carriers broke the back of the U-boat campaign. Another Kaiser scheme was a fleet of 500 enormous cargo planes to broad-jump over the subs...
...influence, as well as his aspirations, extend far beyond Columbus. In 1944 he helped form the Ohio Association for Community-Centered Churches; in 1946 the National Council of Community Churches was founded (he is now its president...
...last week after 5½ years of rigid controls. As traders gathered around the ring in the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, the House Agriculture Committee approved a new set of controls-but of a very different sort. With a world sugar surplus in the offing, the bill will extend for five years the present sales quota system for all foreign and domestic producers. The bill, which Congress is expected to pass this session, ties the sugar price to the cost of living. As long as the cost-of-living stays up, sugar prices will also, no matter how plentiful...