Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public was only given to understand that somehow the regular Department of Agriculture appropriation had got hung up in Congress, but something far bigger than that was going on. At stake was the success of the nation's entire wartime food program, not to mention the possibility of entirely unnecessary and artificial inflation of food prices. At stake for a relatively few top-drawer U.S. farmers were several hundred million dollars of velvet...
...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...
Concern for God. Along with this concern for man, Congregationalists at Durham showed a renewed concern for God. Of late, Congregational interest in human affairs has moved divine affairs a little into the background. There is, for instance, no mention of God in the theological preamble to the present (1931) Congregational constitution. Dr. Douglas Horton, who serves as secretary both of the whole church and of its theological commission, summed up this new feeling...
...Alaska-and Japan-could hear the forbidden news merely by a twist of a short-wave radio dial. Alaska newspapers were forbidden to mention Dutch Harbor casualties until survivors landed in Seattle last week, 22 days after the event...
From now on the bootblack, the mortician, the laundry man, the upholsterer, the locksmith, the cleaner and the garageman around the corner-to mention a few-can charge no more for their services than they did last March.- OPA so ordered last week as it slapped ceilings over just about everything the law allows, brought 1,000,000 retail "commodity service" establishments and $5 billion-worth of business under price control...