Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week UNRRA's Director General Herbert H. Lehman told a House Committee what damage the delay had done. Pressed for funds, UNRRA had been forced to drop $50,000,000 in orders for "critically needed" medical supplies, to spend the money on food instead. Now UNRRA was completely broke...
Unkindest Cut. One of the last chances for averting a strike disappeared last week when young Henry Ford, white hope of the union, turned out to be no comfort at all. U.A.W. leaders had counted heavily on a generous offer close to their own demand for a 30% increase. Instead Ford gave them their sharpest come-uppance...
...almost on their own, the Princesses went to the theater (Terence Rattigan's bland While the Sun Shines at the Globe). With them was a 25-year-old chaperone, the Honorable Mrs. Vicary Gibbs, good-looking war widow. For once the royal party sat in decent orchestra seats instead of the neck-craning royal box. Squiring Elizabeth was Lieut. Nigel Page of the Blues (Royal Horse Guards), and with Margaret Rose was Lieut. Charles Petherick of the Tins (Life Guards). After the show the Guardsmen took their "dates" straight home, bade them goodnight at Buckingham Palace...
...frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant-1) that the British are keeping such large numbers of troops there instead of demobilizing them; and 2) that both sides agree that Russian influence to date is not responsible...
Love begged Harriet to come and live with them. He suggested that she might share him with Mary as generously as Author Smith & Others show that Shelley was sharing Mary with his old Oxford chum, Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Instead, Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine...