Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urgent Appeal. Although the nation's fighting men were already the highest paid in the world, military pay, particularly for officers, had long lagged behind the civilian level. The result was the first general brass-to-rookie pay boost in 40 years. Some samples: a corporal, who got $42 a month before World War II and now draws $105, will get $132; a master sergeant drawing $157 before the war and $283 now, will get $363 ; majors will move up from $484 to $560; brigadier generals from...
...Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People's" Government. The dual post of Premier and Foreign Minister went to smooth-talking Chou Enlai, the party...
...devaluation of the British pound also hit the Italian lira. The Italian cabinet had decided not to devalue the lira, which had already been drastically devalued two years ago, but to let it find its own level on a more or less free market. Forthwith the lira fell from 630 to more than 700 to the dollar. The Communists thereupon challenged Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government to parliamentary debate...
...contender, the Magazine of Fantasy, a slickish, 35? quarterly. Published by the American Mercury's bustling Lawrence Spivak, who also runs radio's Meet the Press program and puts out a string of mystery publications, Fantasy is designed to lift imaginative fiction up to the level of the highest brows...
...first indication from ministerial level that the voting may be imminent...