Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing area of 400 units in Fort Devens is expected to aid the project considerably. The increased cost of transportation and inconvenience of this locality will be balanced by low rentals and the proximity to shopping and recreational centers The transportation companies have been most cooperative, even to the extent of offering special cars and buses if they are needed...
...nation's 9,000 country editors, virtually all of whom do business with him, realize the extent of his infiltration into the rural press. W.N.U.'s 29 plants supply "ready-print" pages (complete with Lydia Pinkham ads) to 2,500 papers, which buy their stock with W.N.U. canned features on one side, put their local news on the blank side. Hundreds go in debt to W.N.U. whenever they buy equipment-another way of holding them...
...total extent of the cache is estimated at 400 to 500 million board feet, less than prewar's normal stock, but far above recent stocks. From Logansport, La. to Broken Bow, Okla. the lumber was piling up. Lumbermen said they were "curing it." But up till a few months ago, many of the yards had shipped it green. Said one Texas lumberman after flying over the area: "It looked like there were acres of lumber around some of those mills...
Some soldiers overstayed their leaves, and in the rickety brick barracks that served as Lichfield's guardhouse, they spent anywhere from two weeks to six months as penalty for various periods of AWOL. Behind barred windows, overcrowded to such an extent that some of the inmates slept on top of wall lockers, they served their time, and other transient GIs could observe their incarcerated friends double timing to chow, sneaking in a verboten smoke (prisoners were allotted three cigarettes a day at Lichfield-one after every meal) or standing at attention, in front of the mess hall, waiting...
...practical purposes, Dr. Seliger defines an alcoholic as a person who is "handled by alcohol" to such an extent that it takes him out of one or more of the traffic lanes of life; he uses liquor as a narcotic. A "social," or moderate, drinker, is one who is supposed to "handle liquor" successfully...