Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Black markets flourished. Hijacking of U.S. provision trucks at night was common until armed guards were ordered to shoot for results. G.I. blankets brought $15 apiece on the black market; women dyed them, cut them up to make spring coats.
But the intense life of American ports pointed also to something beyond invasion-to the new fact that the U.S. is now Queen of the Seas. By the end of the year, the U.S. ships that now provision and arm America and her Allies will be half of all the...
If TIME had leafed a few more pages in the late great Dr. Frederick J. Taussig's standard text on abortion . it would have found this statement: "Of all the measures suggested for the control of abortion none equals in importance the widespread establishment of clinics for contraceptive advice...
Among the sections of the Act is a provision which states that any person, man or woman, who has actively served in the armed forces on or after September 16, 1940 and before the end of the war and who received on honorable discharge after at least six months' duty...
Since this provision for tutorial credit was made after the Class of 1945 had started its work in college, it became necessary to set up special requirements for the Class of 1945. This is the reason for the difference in course requirement for the Class of 1945 as compared with...