Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At eleven, Edgar Bergen had found that he could throw his voice (his mother was forever answering the door in response to pleas of mysterious old men who begged to be let in). The boy was further in spired by Herrman's Wizards Manual, Secrets of Magic, Black Art...
...theaters had resulted in "most urgent pleas" from U.S. generals for immediate shipments "above and beyond all previous estimates. It will be necessary to ship up to 50% more fuel than previously estimated for consumption in some of the more active theaters in the next two or three months. . . . Please push as hard as you possibly...
The precedent-smashing U.S. Supreme Court this week smashed another-this time one that had stood for 75 years. It ruled that the $5,800,000,000 fire-insurance business, which had been supervised by the states, comes under interstate commerce. As such, insurance will immediately become subject to federal...
The Ramspeck Committee used A.A.F. figures to support the men's pleas, found that they are a sizable group-some 6,000 instructors alone-who could be trained for the work the WASPs are doing in about half the time and at half the cost.
In spite of ODT's pleas to keep travel at a minimum, there were eleven other big meetings last week-a contrast with last year, when flocking doctors were almost as rare as passenger pigeons.