Word: print
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Last week, after a second look at the bill, Republican Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan complained that the alleged saving was a "deception." Camouflaged in the fine print of the bill was an unmentioned provision loosening up the rules on pensions for widows and orphans. Under present law, the needy relicts of World War I veterans-but not those of other foreign wars-may claim pensions, even if the husband's death was in no way connected with his military service. The House bill extends the same privilege to widows and children of 205,684 veterans of World...
...Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, commands 10,000 to 15,000 words-a scholar's quota-just for everyday discourse. He gives some of his verbs hundreds of forms, one for each subtle shade of meaning.* But the Eskimo has never printed the words he speaks. Last week, from the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources in Ottawa came the first serious effort to put the Eskimo in periodical print...
...economy (TIME, June 15), 50 small and medium-sized factories in hard-hit Barcelona announced a "suspension of payments," a legal state just this side of actual bankruptcy that defers debt payments and allows a company to lay off help (otherwise forbidden by law). In a land where newspapers print no unpleasant news, word spread that the big (3,000 employees) Euskalduna shipyard and the Basconia steel mill in Bilbao were also about to lay off their work forces, and so was Madrid's leading steel company...
Lady, meanwhile, climbed up the bestseller list and-with the Postmaster General's own review in its scrapbook-would climb higher. Some 70,000 copies were in print at week's end, and Grove was moving them by every means except dog team. The outlook: more publicity, more sales this week, when the publisher seeks an injunction against the postmaster of New York. As for Postmaster General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris...
Excuse my laughter, but will somebody please inform the Alabama public libraries that all of their books have to be placed on the reserved shelf? Don't they know that all their white pages have black print on them...