Word: pleases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deadline. In Brooklyn, 75-year-old Mrs. Ida Atkin danced gaily at her son's wedding, brushed aside pleas to take it easy with, "I don't know whether I'll be alive tomorrow, but I do know I'm alive tonight." At midnight she dropped...
The demands for "a people's peace"-whatever that may be-are growing. From all parties, from all sections have come the voices of men insistent that at war's end there be some kind of world group of nations in which the U.S. will lead. Henry Wallace...
To all these highly-skilled, seemingly out-of-the-world departments war has come with shocking brutality. The librarian has had to answer pleas of a soldier in Florida for information on Egyptian archaeology, the maintenance department has had to pack and supervise the departure of innumerable treasures to their...
The port never did get any important British Lend-Lease shipments to handle. Russian Lend-Lease cargoes were loaded at Boston only for a brief space. Complaining of labor conditions, mismanagement, congestion in the railroad yards, the Russians announced in a huff last January that they were going to pull...
The U.S., on the other hand, needs copper, zinc and lead, not gold. A change for fiscal reasons in its gold-purchase policy is the farthest thing from the Treasury's mind. But the U.S. had another club over Empire miners, and it was fingering this club last week...