Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promising an investigation designed to improve the quality of the cooking in the Lowell House dining hall, Roy L. Westcott, manager of dining halls, has taken immediate action on the official protest presented through the Lowell House Food Committee last week...
Avocado Politics. Apra was not part of the government it fought so ferociously to uphold. With more seats in Congress than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...union which started the strike with less than $50,000 in its till, the Ford local had fared well. The answer lay in substantial support from outside unions. Some of the biggest gifts came from U.S. unions (the River Rouge U.A.W. sent $11,000). Even the A.F. of L. (which in Canada has no quarrel with the C.I.O.) formed Ford strike fund committees to promote contributions...
...York Times science reporter William L. Laurence: it depends...
...peace); Up Front, soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin's grimly amusing picturization (with sardonic matching text) of the fact that heroes also dislike death, cold, mud, hunger and regimentation; These Are the Russians, Richard E. Lauterbach's joyful discovery that Russians are people; Report on the Russians, William L. White's controversial discovery that Russia is not all it is cracked up to be. Others: Persian Gulf Command, Joel Sayre's readable report on a supply front which has currently become a war front; American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Ira Wolfert; On to Westward, Robert Sherrod...