Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army authorities admit there is little they can do about it, but last week they breathed a deep sigh of relief. Under the terms of the French loan, all surplus property in French depots is to be turned over to France within the next three months. Result: a whacking percentage of the current total of 150,000 P.W.s in the Western Base will either be sent back to Germany or placed under French jurisdiction...
...would-be strikers. At week's end, Bridges and Curran-who follow the Communist line more often than not-fired a telegram to the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris, asking that longshoremen in all world ports refuse to unload U.S. Government-operated ships-except troop and relief ships cleared by the C.M.U. In New York, N.M.U. Port Agent Joe Stack sounded the battle cry: "President Truman will break the strike over our dead bodies...
Pigs & Dignity. Russian officials more than fulfilled their promise to give the UNRRA mission full freedom of movement and inspection in carrying out the $189 million relief program. In fact, Russian solicitude was sometimes embarrassing. A Ukrainian peasant and his wife, assigned to clean the mission's Kiev offices, parked a pig in the garden. Officials thought this an affront to UNRRA's dignity, ordered the pig removed. The UNRRA workers said they did not mind the pig. The officials insisted. So the peasant gave the legal two weeks' notice, walked out with his wife...
...whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels. When a fellow member of his church-his only male patient-complained of tremendous heart pains, Shute put him experimentally on cold, pressed wheat-germ oil. For three months he got relief. When both patient and doctor ran out of funds, the treatment was abandoned...
...barber, Roy Bicknell, was in agony from coronary heart disease; three weeks after taking the vitamin, he was able to play the drums in a Little Theater orchestra, go fishing, and return to his work (see cut). Subsequent tests with more than 100 patients brought quick and often dramatic relief...