Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Desperate pleas for food for undernourished University students all over the world were answered in part yesterday by Student Council President Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48 as he announced Council authorization of a second emergency food relief campaign that will attempt to raise $25,000 from University students and faculty members during the week of March...
...decision," beamed a Scottish M.P., "will be greeted with a sigh of relief by the entire civilized world...
...bottle, a large part of the civilized world would sigh, but not with relief...
...Berlin, police arrested more than 200 coal thieves in one week, while citizens queued up for their meager fuel rations (see cut). In one instance, the cold brought a negative kind of relief: it halted (temporarily) the expulsion of Germans from Polish-held regions in the east. Perhaps the best example of what the cold wave meant to Europe's plain people was furnished by a refugee from that area, whose case was reported by TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth...
...mansweat and makeshift, on schedule in mid-1946, the first through train in eight years made the Canton-Hankow run. By November, Director Tu had three expresses going each week. Now he has one daily leaving both north and south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted by American standards...