Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New Equality. After a little more grumbling, the Senate gave in-but not before it had lopped almost a half off the President's proposal, which the House had already approved. Cabinet officers were jumped from $15,000 to $22,500 a year (instead of the $25,000 Harry...
In the glare of floodlights, a big four-motored C-54 dropped down onto Berlin's Tempelhof field, turned off the runway and swung around in the wake of the yellow jeep with the big red-lighted sign: "Follow me." At the unloading stand, its crew climbed down and...
Perilous City. But a great city like New York is full of perils. Three evenings later an attorney named Chester Mandel went into night court, and got a summons charging Bogart with simple assault. His client, an ultra-shapely young female named Robin Roberts, pulled her off-the-shoulder dress...
For the fifth time in 41 years, Oklahoma's wets did their doggondest to repeal the state prohibition law. Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich...
That night most of Moscow's foreign diplomatic colony gathered at Spasso House, the home of U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk. They were watching a movie, when big news arrived. Within hours of Mao Tse-tung's bid, Joseph Stalin's government had granted recognition to the Chinese...