Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon D. Scram-stad in Yellowknife, and farther north to D. E. Webster in Good Hope...
Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's stalwart Socialist mayor, said: "Of course it's a good thing. I'm very happy. At last the Russians have climbed down. Now I hope they'll disappear from our midst." But everyone realized that the battle for the city would continue. East Berlin's Communist Party called for conferences to end the split in the city government. To this, Ernst Reuter retorted: "Work with those people-never...
...share in the high hopes for a lasting settlement. In his pleasant brick villa near Leiden, lean Bertho van Suchtelen liked to dream of the old days when he was governor of Sumatra East Coast-days to him of peace and order in the East Indies under the good Queen's kindly rule. When The Netherlands' Queen Mother Emma died, van Suchtelen had remained for a full hour before her wreathed picture in rigid mourning pose...
Realistic Tears. Harold Wilson last week was in the thick of Britain's biggest, bravest dollar-export drive to date. At the British Industries Fair (in London's Olympia and Earl's Court arenas, and in Birmingham's Castle Bromwich), $40 million worth of goods from 3,000 busy factories were on proud display. Nothing was spared to impress thousands of foreign buyers who dropped in to see the wares. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything...
...kiln . . . Ida and Margret . . . worked in a peat field . . . Elli worked in a coal mine . . . Emma was put to work in a tile factory. All the women stated that a specific amount of work known as the 'norm' had to be done each day ... In most cases good work guaranteed better food. All the women said that they were worked to their utmost capacity...