Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress had hopelessly botched the draft law (see Army & Navy). The bill to extend OPA before June 30 still floundered in a Senate committee. Competing committees wrangled over Army-Navy merger. Action had been completed on only five of 13 major appropriation bills...
Labor had sometimes suspected that one of these days Britain's peers might again itch to extend their legislative hand and block Laborite bills passed by the House of Commons. Last week it almost happened. The Lords were considering the repeal of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act when Lord Merthyr, a former artillery major, boldly suggested an amendment that would substantially change the bill. Said he: "I submit that the functions of your lordships' House should be allowed to continue as they were intended to continue ... [or] is this House really merely an assembly for dotting...
Ships can now enter Liverpool harbor in any weather, avoiding expensive delays at the Mersey's mouth. Britain's War Transport Ministry will soon set up radars at London and Southampton. Eventually it hopes to extend the system to all of Britain's fog-plagued harbors...
...Opposition, and the Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists," and their program to save France was "Lopeo-therapy"; it called for the elimination olf poverty after 10 p.m., the rebuilding of Paris in the country because it lacks air; the nationalization of brothels. Extremists want to extend the Boulevard St. Michel to the sea, with a comfort station every 50 yards...
Actions designed to bring convalescing patients "closer to college life," while at the same time providing them with "pleasant evening entertainment" were revealed last night as the Crimson Network and Phillips Brooks House announced the beginning of a complete and individual radio service which will eventually extend to each of Stillman Infirmary's 36 hospital beds...