Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...executive of a machine tool company in a small city in Ohio tells us that "several families in this community are in need of domestic help. It is quite possible that some of the young women entering this country could find security in lovely surroundings should they be interested in this type of work...
Delegates to the Western Union conference of Foreign Ministers at The Hague last week got a small practical demonstration of the need for Western Union. On the Étoile du Nord, the international luxury express which makes a daily Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, they had to show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...
...present Czechoslovakian Prime Minister and chairman of the Labor Federation who pronounced himself against any form of strike as soon as he came into power; I am not thinking of doing so even in the future. But besides the liberty of trade unions, there is an urgent need for work and political order...
...military lines and cruel no man's land toward Tientsin, Peiping and the hope of a living. The distance they cover is upwards of 800 miles. The ordeal they undergo, as culled from my own observation in Manchuria and North China and from the press in Nanking, would need a Tu Fu to compass...
High above all the hubbub, mildly amused by the whole affair, sat the first-place Boston Braves, who didn't need a new manager. At week's end, after winning four out of five, the Braves were eight games out front in the National League. Chuckled confident Manager Billy Southworth: "I'm a tough man to beat when I'm ahead. They're really going to have to go some to beat...