Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circuit (100-200 miles) the car doubles back, visits each hamlet ten times before the school year ends in June. This adds up to a rugged schedule for the seven teachers. But even with a top salary of $2,000 a year, the application list is long, the teacher turnover light...
Last month the ominous word went out over Los Angeles' Spring Street that "cleaning up this Citizens National situation" had become No. one on the list of things 76-year-old Mr. Giannini wanted to do before it was too late. Early in August every director of the bank received a letter from Giannini. "The management [needs] strengthening," he wrote. "I trust you will take immediate steps...
...move that will cut the week's total production by at least 20,000 units. And somewhere in the murky water was the added threat, first visible last fortnight, of new wage demands by the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. First on U.A.W's list: Chrysler...
...appraisal of Communism in practice. No doubt the Soviet Government was far more worldly and realistic. But the fact of being a Christian implies a faith that in the end all mankind, including Russia, must be pervaded by religious belief. It was just possible that in adding to their list of religious well-wishers, the hardheaded commissars were inviting the innocence of doves to triumph over the wisdom of serpents...
Wyatt then added 50 more items to the 30-odd already on the housing priorities list. Sample additions: stoves, refrigerators, linoleum, sheet steel, putty. He persuaded the Department of Commerce to extend its control over exports of building materials. He let it be known that new limitations might be placed on nonresidential construction...