Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suppressed Report. Had Nationalist China been a hopeless cause? If so, U.S. policy apparently made a mad marriage with despair and defeat many years ago, and wasted billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J day, it concedes, China's economic situation was "surprisingly good and contained many elements of hope." As late as 1947, the Nationalists were "at the very peak of their military successes...
More than 315,000 poll-taxed Virginians-a record number, though still only a tenth of the state's population-turned out on Primary Day to choose the Democrat who will be the state's next governor. Their choice: plodding, poker-faced John S. Battle, the man U.S. Senator Byrd picked to keep his 25-year-old organization in the Richmond State House...
Hatchetman Westbrook Pegler, already on record as "anti-democratic," set his readers straight on another point: "I should like to release those delegates who have been loyal to me on the ground that I was not anti-union but only anti-communist and anti-racketeer . . . Yes, I am now anti-union...
...Highlands, N.J., 42-year-old Gertrude Ederle, after 23 years still holder of the women's speed record for swimming the English Channel, wished the best of luck to 17-year-old Shirley May France, training for the same feat. In England, Shirley May primly assured the world that there would be a bathing suit under her coat of grease...
Spread Thin. Having spread the facts on the record, Armour Laboratories began spreading the short supply of ACTH thinner than ever. Contracts were signed with 45 leading hospitals and clinics across the U.S. To qualify for a tiny share of the priceless powder (it is not for sale), each institution must show that it has the staff and equipment to carry out carefully controlled experiments...