Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day John Lewis and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, neutral trustee of the welfare fund, overruled the operators' Trustee Ezra Van Horn (who had submitted his resignation two days before) and made a drastic decision. Since the start of Lewis' three-day week, the fund had...
Asked to identify the "selfish interests" who were using scare-words, Truman turned suddenly coy. He could not identify them at present, he said, but a little further along in the campaign he might identify some individuals and some special interests. "Which campaign?" a newsman shot back. The 1950 campaign...
In humans, the most baffling virus is that of poliomyelitis. It has been noted for years that the disease seems to attack better-nourished children. In mice experiments, if the animals' diet was deficient in thiamin (vitamin B1), the incubation period was prolonged, and the paralysis and mortality rates...
In spite of such reassuring facts, some businessmen had been hard hit. U.S. retailers reported that their sales were still below the 1948 level, and for 172 department stores, net profits for 1949's first half were 58% below the 1948 period. Some merchants thought that further price cuts...
Any Questions? In Knoxville, Tenn., John O. Blair got a drunken-driving charge dismissed after he stoutly insisted that he was not drunk, but merely shaken by eating overripe watermelon and beer. In Johnson City, Tenn., State Alcohol Tax Agent Jess C. Ford, charged with drunken driving and possession of...