Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourth, the lack of housing and fuel is beginning to be seriously felt as winter approaches. Some towns, like Ploesti and Campina, have been almost completely destroyed by bombing. The influx of Russian troops sharpened the housing shortage. As a result, the Rumanians are beginning to requisition housing themselves for their people...
...last July reached an alltime high-18,590,000 as compared with 11,000,000 before the war. Nevertheless, the number of women in manufacturing dropped 134,000 between January and May of this year. And the July top came largely from seasonal gains (chiefly agricultural) and a summer influx of student workers. The net result is that the woman-power pool, largest U.S. labor reserve, is showing signs of drying up. But the possibility that the total labor force may fall below minimum needs before the end of the war emergency is remote...
...nature's cycle has returned to the vegetarian stage once more, and Yard-birds awake at an early hour can glimpse the first tender leaves of lettuce peeking up between Harvard and Hollis. Meat-eaters look forward eagerly to the expected influx of rabbit...
...Reykjavik after representing Iceland's Government at the silver jubilee of the Icelandic National League in Winnipeg. He also had met as many as possible of the 12,000 Icelanders in the U.S. and assured Americans that U.S. troops are happy in Iceland. He concedes that the sudden influx of thousands of servicemen into Iceland created problems. But they were no worse than those of any U.S. small town with a big Army camp plunked down beside it. Now recreational facilities have improved, and Icelanders have lost some of their shyness toward the strangers...
...word Yummy. He had been seeing it in numerous advertisements: Wheatena was simply yummy; Peter Pan Peanut Butter was plenty yummy; dresses and sweaters were coming in yummy colors. Sighed the editor: "Yummy is ... seldom, if ever, employed by males over six. . . . The yummy vogue traces to the current influx of feminine copywriters, is one of the home-front horrors of war which must be borne as philosophically as possible...