Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attached to the letter was a list of 31 demands, a new kind of problem for U.A.W. to handle. Most important...
...peace. To 30-year-old Frank Lillyman, a captain in the 101st Airborne Division, the dreams became obsessions. On Christmas Day at Bastogne, he hunched over in the icy rain to scribble his dreams on paper. As he moved with the 101st across Germany, he kept adding to the list. It finally included every detail of a soldier's vision of heaven...
...Penicillin, so plentiful last summer that manufacturers got permission to put it in tablets and capsules, was back on the priority list as production fell farther & farther behind demand. The Civilian Production Administration (successor to WPB) figures that production is already 20% short of filling current needs, will set aside 40% for hospitals until further notice...
Said Bowles: "Dealers will actually realize considerably higher [profit] margins than they did before the war." His explanation: although 1941 list prices permitted dealers a markup of about 24%, cash discounts and losses taken on trade-ins actually reduced this to 12%. Since the present demand reduces the need for high trade-in allowances, Bowles predicted that dealers' actual markups "will be about 75% above the prewar level...
...British still said that they were merely trying to restore order. Major General E. C. Mansergh, their Surabaya commander, told the Indonesians to lay down their arms. The list of arms he gave ranged from tanks to poison arrows. When the Indonesians refused, British guns and planes shelled and bombed the city and British Indian troops moved in against snipers. President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" condemned the "massacre." His secretary said: "I think there will be much fighting...