Word: regular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning to their old home (last occupied by the Senate in 1859) while the regular Senate Chamber undergoes repairs, the Senators seemed to take a quickened interest in their work. All week long they turned out in record attendance, jostling through the hordes of clerks, secretaries and minor factotums that clogged the narrow corridor to the entrance...
...long-suffering people of Germany's Soviet zone were getting help against the Spitzels (informers). "Achtung, Potsdam!" boomed RIAS, U.S. Military Government's radio station in Berlin. "We warn against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...
...time since the war, offered a choice of ten "packaged" European tours at a cost of $8 to $18 per day (including meals, hotel, tips, sightseeing, etc.) above plane fare. British Overseas Airways Corp. was pushing a round-the-world trip via Australasia for $1,886 ($93.70 below its regular fare), with stopovers up to one year...
...Slovakia last week, peasants armed with scythes and clubs assailed police who entered parish churches to arrest Roman Catholic priests. At least two policemen were killed. Workers' militia and regular troops were rushed to the areas of disturbance...
...celebrating its 25th birthday, M-G-M is still Hollywood's biggest studio (31 stages and 3,700 employees), and the only one to have run so long with regular dividends and without merger, bankruptcy or reorganization. For the anniversary year, no special day has been set for a celebration. But last week M-G-M executives kept a date that came close enough for the milestone: they trooped to a birthday luncheon for 64-year-old L. B. Mayer...