Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each pocket and placed the personal effects of the dead in clean wool socks for dispatch to the quartermaster depot at Kansas City. One identification tag has been left on each body, the other nailed to the cross which will be placed above the grave until a larger metal plate can be stamped. The graves are laid out in perfect geometrical pattern; they have been charted so that no mistake can be made in locating any body...
...more of them are finding a place. In the Kaiser shipyards, for example, a paralyzed arm is no hindrance to I. L. Matthews, who walks under a crane to warn other workers to get out of the way. Deaf James Porter works as a burner in the noisy plate shop where nobody else can hear anyone speak either. Of some 5,000,000 U.S. cripples, it is estimated that 75% are employable-and of some 600,000 epileptics...
...switch may not be noticed by the 18,000,000-odd readers (6,000,000 combined circulation) of This Week. Their magazine is a boiler-plate assemblage of Grade-B fiction, short articles of the type known as "punchy," home economics and familiar homilies. This Week avoids all controversial issues. The result is pallid fare. But This Week, now eight years old, is a very profitable venture. Last year its advertising revenue reached $7,000,000, and member papers shared profits greatly exceeding the price they paid (as little as $7.50 per 1,000 copies) for carrying the magazine. Backer...
Divorced. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 28, lion-shooting tin-plate heir ($9,000,000) ; and Latin-eyed Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 23, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000); after four years of marriage (his second); in Palm Beach. She got custody of Sandra Emerson Topping, 3, and Henry Junkins Topping...
...April the U.S. produced 1,121,647 tons of steel plate, an alltime high for a 30-day month,exceeded only by the 1,167,679 tons turned out in 31-day March. At this rate, prospective 1943 steel-plate production (without a coal mine strike) can now be estimated at 13,000,000 tons, 12% up from last year...