Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...
Tacho's own father was an honest small farmer who lived in the Nicaraguan town of San Marcos. With the help of a few good coffee crops, he sent his son to a business college in Philadelphia. Young Tacho learned a little bookkeeping, learned a lot about basic advertising appeals. He also went to the ball parks (to this day he is a fan of the Phillies and Athletics...
...What Dewey Will Do' has been prepared and will be mailed to you within a week, embodied in Kiplinger Magazine" This was followed by a full-page ad in TIME, after the election: "What will DEWEY do? Find out in the November issue of Kiplinger Magazine ... It will help you dispel the campaign...
When he was 15, Knox began to take up religion seriously on his own. A friend came down with typhoid and, feeling that he must somehow help, Knox lived on bread & butter for six weeks. When the friend died, Knox prayed for him 15 minutes daily "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity ... I must have 'power to attend to the Lord without impediment...