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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student eager to see his share of the was now and get it over with, the Field Service is appealing. Not only does the age limit of 18 let in anyone under 21 who can obtain his parents' consent, but he need only be in good health...
...order to follow the programs of WQXR some 14,000 listeners every month contribute 10? to obtain a monthly program listing. Stern in its policy about advertising, WQXR rejects obnoxious commercial plugs on the ground that they insult fastidious customers. It was mortified when it learned too late for cancellation that a Ford show last year included advertising ditties...
Collegepuellae hollywoodenses. The ones that don't study. Repeated surveys have failed to obtain data about this type, or to discover specimens...
...discussion of practical post-war problems will lead to disunion among those fighting the common enemy is justified. Proposals for a future boundary between Czechoslovakia and Poland, for instance, would only result in setting the London governments of those countries at one anothers' throats. Such an attitude should not obtain in America, far removed from the petty quarrels of the small nations of Europe. Twenty-three years ago tomorrow Americans celebrated Armistice Day as the end of a great victory. For Americans today November 11, 1918 represents the beginning of a great defeat--one that must not be repeated...
...present struggle of 55,000 United Mine Workers to obtain for themselves a pitifully modest share of the vast profits of the United States Steel Corporation (a national defense fat-cat if ever there was one) may end in the complete destruction of organized labor in America. The purpose of our going to war is to preserve our hard-won' rights and freedoms... the destruction of those rights and freedoms in the process robs you of all justification for going...