Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier's temper aroused, Marshall went on to discuss the plight of China's armies. Recalling his mission to China, Marshall said: "I told them that no operation could be successful until they first had trained troops and sent these troops to battle under competent leadership. There hasn't been any lack of advice. It's been continuous and emphatic and ignored!" He listed the military help the U.S. had already provided since the arms embargo was lifted last May: 130 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 150 C46 transports and 80 light combat planes...
Postmen's Plight...
...point out that Letter Carrier Bolen's $3,100 [TIME, Jan. 26] is top grade pay? If Mrs. Bolen has difficulty with the budget, imagine the plight of us World War II veterans who chose the Postal Service for a career, and at the bottom grade pay of $2,100 a year must somehow support our growing and frequently evicted and homeless families. Under present Postal Regulations it will take us ten years to reach the $3,100 level, if we manage to hang...
...worse is the plight of the men who offered to redouble their rooms; their sacrificing spirit is costing them money as well as comfort. To take an example, the base rent of an average triple is $125 and of a double $175. Assuming both suite have four post-war occupants, and that $40 is added for each extra man, simple arithmetic shows the men in the doubled suite are paying five dollars more. In other words, it is more expensive for four men to live in a double suite than in a triple. Four hundred undergraduates are victims of this...
...powerful bargaining position, but it gleefully anticipated a coming day when once again employers can be choosy and stingy. Meanwhile, the Office of Student Placement announced a series of twelve symposiums in which the various careers open to graduating seniors will be discussed. Fortune Magazine has indicated what the plight of such specifically-trained persons as Business School graduates may soon be. The corresponding fate of the liberally educated but, for the most part, vaguely prepared college graduate can be imagined. But the philosophy behind the workings of the Office of Student Placement--as indicated in the purely educational respect...