Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your story (TIME, Dec. 27) concerning failure of American women to rush into WAC uniform states "Soldiers who have been in action want their women to join...
Vivien Kellems, Westport, Conn, cable-grip manufacturer, in a speech to a Kansas City civic group, invited manufacturers to a "Westport tea party" - to form postwar reserves for their industries by putting aside money from their Federal income taxes. "Put on your Indian paint and feathers and join me," cried the 48-year-old, youthful, minister's daughter. "I owe it to my country ... to help rectify this horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers...
...gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond (but pretty hairy), heavy-set with rather feminine flesh distribution, square-jawed with square teeth. He is likely to have a wide rib-breastbone angle, full lips...
...Admiralty referred to the submarine as a unit of a new "Eastern Fleet," which presumably includes warships withdrawn from the Mediterranean. The action was a promise for the indefinite future, when the Royal Navy can fulfill Prime Minister Churchill's pledge to join U.S. Pacific forces in the final attack on Japan...
...each dependent, $24 for a complete family. For this money the subscriber usually gets 1) hospitalization up to three weeks in a semiprivate hospital room, 2) operating room costs, 3) confinement expenses (some plans will not pay for a child born less than eleven months after the subscriber joins the plan). Last year the plans paid for the birth of 200,000 babies. Most hospitalization members are employe groups of big companies, clubs or unions. But some plans allow individuals to join. (Few give individual joiners maternity benefits.) Only ineligibles: people over 65, the chronically ill, mental cases. Special allowances...