Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knox knew it was time to reef. In a carefully worded statement issued by the Navy, he gulped his previous words, took a new tack: "There is no great difference in the Navy and the committee figures for 1942, the net loss in gross tons being in the neighborhood of something over a million tons...
...hospitable and deadly to men; the dark masses of land are still as large, the stony mountains still as high, the myriad populations still as strange, the myriad languages still as hard to learn. They deceive themselves who say this globe has shrunk to a convenient size, to a neighborhood whose men can greet each other at corners and whose women can borrow butter across the fence. The truth has been lost in a metaphor...
Flight for Freedom (RKO-Radio) centers around the expansion of Japanese power in the '30s. The U.S. needs a plausible reason to photograph the Japanese-mandated islands from the air. Suppose the Navy had to search for a famous woman flyer lost in that neighborhood...
...program calls for, among other things, the immediate end of the war, improvement of the municipal zoo, cleansing of the air in Buenos Aires, women's suffrage, more lights and benches in his neighborhood park. He also proposes to solve both the financial situation and the fuel shortage, by burning the country's garbage to make electricity...
Accurate up to February 1, 1943, the bulletin information "about the University and its history, local churches, where to go for rooming, social functions at the University, the University Committee on Wartime Personnel, places of interest to visit in the neighborhood, and other matters...