Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox of poverty in the midst of riches, not Soviet Imperialism, is the real enemy of American democracy. The coming depression and mass joblessness, not labor union activity, is the threat to our freedom...
...over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...
...Common Criminals." Worse still, the movement had a "mass character." In the Kuibyshev region alone, a check on "by no means all" the collective farms had already uncovered 19,367 cases of "turning them into sources of private income." Presumably at least that many Russians were involved. The decree added that these "common criminals guilty of anti-government activity" would be tried without delay...
...tracers." They have found that more than half of the patients who turn up for venereal treatment can be persuaded, with tactful handling, to name their contacts. The investigators can sometimes trace the spirochetes back through a complex transmission line (see cut). More effective than the shotgun technique of mass blood tests, contact tracing has helped venereal fighters to identify and round up for treatment thousands of active disease spreaders...
...first 1946-47 appeal to the Administration on behalf of the student body, the Student Council made a formal request yesterday to Roy V. Perry, University Bursar, to grant a mass extension on all non-veterans' term bills. The bills, which were included in registration envelopes Thursday, Friday, and Monday, are due today, thus giving old students only two days to produce funds for them...