Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Note: This is no time for over-optimism...
...morning of Thanksgiving Day a note of genuine alarm had crept into the newspaper accounts. Doom-voiced radio announcers rushed to their microphones as the strike spread to Detroit and Washington, as it threatened to engulf New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. And then, just as the nation rose from its Thanksgiving dinners, the strike ended as abruptly as it had begun...
...Japanese had one more criticism with a rueful note. The marines "don't give a hang about their lives and so land recklessly in landing operations...
...arctic realism, the vital-statistics reports of the U.S. Bureau of Census have no rival. In a report made available last week, one lonely note of promise shivered among lowering facts: whereas in 1900 some 3,080,498 U.S. citizens lived to the age of 65, today the number is 9,019,314, and by 1980 it is estimated that double that number will reach 65, even make it past the classical three-score...
Quick to qualify this promising note, the Census figures go on to say that in the past 44 years post-65 life expectancy has increased only slightly. Women (white) of 65 can now expect to live a year longer than they could have in 1900 (to 78.2 v. 77.1) ; male expectancy has increased only half a year...