Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emergency Council then announced that the newspaper staff had demonstrated its incompetence to select a board of editors. Nicholas McD. McKnight, associate dean of the College, entered the picture at this point with the suggestion that a committee be formed to submit a list of names to the Emergency Council for its determination of the Spectator's managing board...
...Office of Censorship shut up shop after three years, seven months, 27 days. Only the how-to-make-it facts about the atomic bomb remained on the secret list, and the Army was left to do its own censoring on that. Last big project of the Office of Censorship: a report on how its job should be done in the next...
...sold the performing rights to his greatest-selling song, Old Folks at Home. It started as Way Down Upon de Pedee Ribber but Stephen, not liking the sound of that, consulted an atlas and discovered Florida's Suwannee River. Minstrel Edwin P. Christy even brought the right to list himself as composer. Yet, in all, Stephen's 200 songs earned him some $15,000, which wasn't bad for those days...
Chester Bowles and his OPA were under fire last week. Retail merchants, after scanning the list of 1000-odd consumer luxury items released from price controls, decided that OPA's mountainous labors had brought forth a mouse...
...were furniture retailers impressed by the OPA list which lifted the ceilings on "rugs, the weaving surface of which is made wholly from animal skins"; "furniture made entirely of glass"; "spinning wheels...