Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English friend has said of him: "Nobody could really be so worried about his work as George always looks." When he entered the Pera Palace with an entourage of some 50 persons, whom he had brought from Sofia because Britain broke off relations with Bulgaria after the Nazi influx (TIME, March 10), it was typical of George William Rendel that he went straight upstairs to his room and began to check over personally his Legation's more important papers. Other members of the British group were signing the hotel register or chatting in the lobby when the blast went...
...tremendous influx of skilled labor brought sharply to the attention of the Star the need for a bright, compact newspaper in modern tempo. At the same time . . . a modern motor-coach system . . . makes the old, large newspaper impractical to read while riding." Thus last week the Seattle Star gave its reason for becoming the Pacific Northwest's first tabloid. There were other reasons. They were something of a tabloid story in themselves-a story of mismanaged inheritance, hairbreadth financial escapes, family squabbling...
Camps and Vamps. Whether or not the Rev. Mr. Swomley had a cogent argument against conscription, the Army's vice problem was bound to expand along with the expanding Army. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall last fortnight remarked the "influx of persons of questionable reputation" into towns near growing Army posts, begged for local cooperation in keeping soldiers' amusement clean. The American Social Hygiene Association, culling reports from scores of undercover investigations, estimated that by last week 50,000 trulls were on defense duty. The U. S. Public Health Service, anxious to prevent a rise in venereal...
...cautious Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, who was eager to freeze all German and Italian funds in the U. S. He pointed out: 1) all U. S. funds in Germany and Italy are already frozen in effect by currency controls, 2) freezing of Axis funds would also freeze the influx of funds for sabotage, espionage and propaganda, since all embassies and consulates would have to specify their expenses. At week's end it looked as if action would follow soon. For the sake of "neutrality" British funds might be frozen too (but withdrawals freely allowed for arms purchases...
Telegrams, flowers, and congratulatory messages and an influx of friends and admirers poured into 5 Clemont Circle yesterday in honor of the eightieth birthday of Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus...