Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convulsions within the Labor Cabinet (Shinwell was about to be thrown to the dogs. Bevan was ready to move in where Bevin feared to tread). Cried Ernie Bevin: "My God, working men and women! This is the first Labor Government you've got.* Don't let it fall!" A gust of anti-Attlee anecdotes swirled up. Said one Labor minister: "If you told Attlee, 'Look here, sir, I've just put strychnine in your wife's coffee,' he would say, 'Quite, quite,' and go on to something else...
...proprietors (stockholders) heard the 30th governor, Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper, report: "The fall in net profits (from ?1,717,397, to ?1,068,803) is largely due to the sharp fall in inventory prices in the fur trade. . . . The directors anticipate . . . some further downward adjustment. . . ." But Sir Patrick was confident. The company, he said, was well on the way to re-establishing London's eminence in the world's fur markets; the future looked bright...
...will be published this fall in the U.S., by Charles C. Thomas. Springfield...
...editorialists. To replace him at Charlotte, the News picked 47-year-old William M. Reddig, literary and feature editor of the Kansas City Star. Bald Bill Reddig, an all-round newsman for 25 years, has a book about the Pendergast machine (Tom's Town) coming out in the fall. As a Democrat on a Republican paper, he always wanted to write editorials, jumped at the chance when the Democratic finger of the Charlotte News beckoned...
...first U.S. war babies were ready for school. The U.S. Office of Education announced that first-grade school classes will be 9% bigger this fall, because of the large numbers of babies born during the first year of the draft. The U.S. will have swollen first-grade classes for another six years, to handle the 17,047,539 U.S. babies born during the war years...