Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price bill. Moreover, the committee's two-week needling of Leon & bill made clear that there were further delays ahead. Members would return with enough questions to last till Christmas. Only thing likely to hasten them: a price rise so steep that the entire nation yelled in pain. Then a law might be too late...
...coma. Occasionally, his wife and doctors heard him murmur something about the U.S. flag, saw his body stiffen to attention in the bed. He had hoped to die on active service, with his tanks and troops at Fort Knox, Ky. Sick since last year, beaten by pain, he gave up his command three weeks ago and went to Boston, where he could be with his friend and physician, Dr. Edward Delos Churchill...
...manufacture of those articles, only a trifling percentage of U.S. raw-silk imports has been used but unless substitutes are found the pain of doing without them will not be measured by the quantity of silk they contained...
Last week the 44th gave regular soldiers acute pain once again. From Companies I and L of its 174th Infantry went a telegram to Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, protesting extension of the National Guard's year of service. At week's end Major General Clifford Powell announced that this breach of military discipline had been forgiven. Next day the 44th passed through Fredericksburg, Va. From the trucks showered penciled notes-more protest. Sample text: "One year's enough. Send this to your newspaper. . . . Why not take a vote among the National Guard...
...ease the pain the blacklist was bound to cause in Latin America, Washington was ready with some quick anesthetics. Priorities for Latin America's essential needs were already in the works (TIME, July 21). Added last week was a streamlined method of handling orders: governments below the border could get quick action from the State Department, private firms from Export Control Administrator Russell L. Maxwell. The Treasury announced a new general license, covering all dealings with Latin-American firms which had not been blacklisted. To top things off, the Commerce Department estimated that U.S. purchases this year would...