Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green emergency squad wagon from the Police Department drove up when a bomb made a direct hit on a one-story brick house, setting it on fire. Up drove a "catastrophe" ambulance from Bellevue with interns and nurses; up drove a red Consolidated Edison truck to fix broken gas mains and cables; a station wagon with "Mobile Blood Plasma Unit No. i" on the side...
...said that it is necessary only for Roosevelt to revoke proclamations which fix combat areas into which American merchantment may not enter. If Congress disagrees, he pointed out, it can reinstate the combat areas by adoption of a concurrent resolution...
...fact he has: ever since 17 years ago when he was raised to the decorative presidency of A.F. of L. In those years he has reached some philosophic conclusions: that boys will be boys; that no one is perfect; that in the long run the laws of economics will fix things up; that, besides, he couldn't do anything about it if he wanted to. The thing that gets him excited is the insinuation that he has been an accessory, before or after the fact, in any crookedness. That is unjustifiable slander. Mr. Green makes the windows rattle with...
Many doctors favor declaring red-light districts out of bounds. Under the May Act, passed last June, the Secretary of War can fix zones in which prostitution is a Federal offense. So far Secretary Stimson has done nothing. Probably the law will be enforced only in sections where local officials refuse to do their own cleaning up. Another difficulty: like the Army, prostitutes have become mechanized. They move around in cars and trailers, can't be put off Federal roads...
Throughout the U.S., some 329,000 children were in a similar fix. The Federal Office of Education estimated that 200,000 would crowd into present or makeshift classrooms. The remaining 129,000 would have to get their education in tents or portable houses, or go without schooling...