Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strict immigration curbs keep Australia rather empty, but safe for seven million inhabitants who prefer kangaroos to competition. Even when it came to picking the King's Governor General for the Dominion, the Australian Labor Party wanted no "foreigners" to succeed the Duke of Gloucester (whose chief of staff had been charged with an unfair labor practice after a row with his valet). So Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, an ex-locomotive engineer, produced from the Labor Party's own marsupial pouch the new Governor General, William John McKell, Prime Minister of New South Wales...
...special arrangement, the Veterans Administration will reimburse men under the G.L Bill for the purchase of books from the AVC files. Many veterans prefer to pay the low prices in cash, however, to avoid overcharging their allowances, Lofchte noted...
...frank and humane treatment of the problem of illegitimacy, a treatment that is in marked contrast to the lecherous curiosity with which most Boston dailies (the writer knows of only one exception) exploit the errors and failings of private individuals for a reading public that seems to prefer its pornography in a journalistic form. With typically Gallie sense of proportion and balance, the French-made film concerns itself with the plight of the pretty young daughter of a well-digger who finds herself with child by the handsome son of the local hardware merchant, shortly after that worthy departs...
Glorious Future. Emigrants will pay their own fare (about $300), either in cash or in deduction from their pay after they start work. In Buenos Aires they will be welcomed by the Central Immigration Committee, which will find them the sort of job they prefer and can do best. The first general laborers will get the same pay as their Argentine peers, about $75 a month. Under Perón's grandiose five-year plan, which calls among other things for a steel plant almost as big as Pittsburgh's Homestead, there should be plenty for them...
Nobody really knows much about seasickness, except the experts, who wish they didn't. Doctors know little about its cause (they prefer to call it "motion sickness," since car, air, and seasickness are the same thing). They think it may result from nerve impulses touched off by the sloshing about of fluid in the inner ear's semicircular canals. At least four people in ten are susceptible to motion sickness, some so readily that watching a tennis ball in play, spinning on a stool, or even hearing a sea voyage mentioned turns their stomachs. Most people, after...