Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From then on he had plain sailing to the top. General Arnold worked prodigiously at his desk, flew prodigiously, never lost his grin. Articulate, facile with words, he wrote boys' books about a young flying hero; with rugged Major General Ira Eaker as collaborator, he began turning out books about air power. But the lessons of other days had stuck. Arnold and Eaker tore no hair, snatched no lapels from their readers' coats. Their books were sound, but conservative and well hedged. If Billy Mitchell turns out not to be 100% right, neither of them has anything...
Presented commissions as Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery Reserve were: Joseph M. Ambrose, Dancers; Walter D. Brooks, Jr., Fitchburg; Francis E. Carlson, Winchester; Arthur G. Carty, Jamaica Plain; Thomas M. Cook, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Stuart H. Cowen, West Warwick, Rhode Island; Richard B. Craig, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert F. Cutting 2d, New York City; Nicholas E. Devereux 3d, Fort Ontario, New York; John J. Devin, Newton Center; Henry F. Dunbar, Boston; Gerald Eisner, New York City; Russell W. Ellis, Winchester...
...Belmont was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Reserve, Certificates of course completion in field artillery training were presented to: George I. Connolly, Jr., Arlington; Roger C. Henselman, Medford, Ohio; William W. Jones, Huntington, W. Va.; John C. Millard, Staten Island, N. Y.; Eugeno J. Reilly, Jamaica Plain; George L. Snow, 2d, Winchester; Bayard C. Stone, Eikins Park, Pa.; and John E. Tully, West Roxbury. Charles P. Berdell, 3d, of New York City received a certificate of course completion and will be commissioned later as a Second Lientenant in the Chemical Whemical Warfar Reserve...
...cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive tract -all especially common in the lower economic groups. One reason for this prevalence, said the doctor, is the "banal" fact of widespread tooth decay, or "in plain English, a dirty mouth." Improper chewing and constant swallowing of infected matter produce dangerous physical and chemical irritation of the digestive tract. Prevention of this form of cancer involves a change "in mode and habits of life...
Retailers worried even more about the price-control records they would have to keep for the 90,000 enforcers. But this was just a trifle. The plain fact was that price control is necessarily regimentation, and therefore requires totalitarian methods. The U.S. might as well get used...