Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citing examples from the recent fires in East Boston and the Cocoanut Grove, Dr. Martin Spellman, Medical Examiner of the Boston Fire Department, addressed a group of ARP workers and doctors last night in the New Lecture Hall on the subject of rescue work at fires and other grave emergencies...
...Plan. Broadly, Sir William's plan is said to foresee a system of compulsory state insurance covering every man, woman and child in England, regardless of age, income or job, from the cradle to the grave, against almost all forms of personal want or insecurity. The system would be administered by a Minister of Social Security, its details worked out by official experts. Some features...
...Clarence E. McPherson, later killed in Australia, once landed on an airdrome before he knew the Japs had seized it, but realized his mistake before the Japs did. The 19th's best-beloved character, a Portuguese-accented master sergeant named Louis ("Soup") Silva, now buried in an Australian grave, shot down three Japanese Zeros while trying to explain to a private how a gun should be aimed...
...draft. Their number will be considerable, for its is estimated that one man out of every four will be rejected. Barred by disability from active war service, these men can make an important contribution to their generation, but unless a definite and responsible effort is made, they are in grave danger that only technical courses will be available to them...
...outlook is indeed dark for all minorities when the rights granted them in the Atlantic Charter are now being destroyed in a token suppression in vital India. The situation becomes grave when the realization that this selfsame "old order" element at work in London clubs and chambers will yield perhaps the most important single influence at the conferences that will determine the new order...