Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army alone made 480,000,000 maps during the war; the Navy and the Aeronautical Chart Service lost count. Inedible, but no less valuable, were huge rubber relief maps of enemy territory which could be rolled up like a rug. For castaways on life rafts: charts on rubberized cloth. For flyers over "the Hump": a cloth map with a request for aid printed on it in Chinese, Burmese, Lisu, Kachin, Hindustani, Bengali-and English...
...nots. Big Brother Joachim joined the Hitler Jugend at ten and became a Grup-penführer before entering the Wehrmacht. Sister Ursula served in the girls' branch of the Hitler Youth, collecting tin foil, warm clothes for soldiers on the eastern front and funds for winter relief...
...fellow substitutes at Lincoln are members of the Future Teachers of America, who try to get their hands in by teaching at least one class every two weeks. They rarely get such a chance as Cleveland's flu gave them. Said Lincoln's principal: "Best relief pitchers ever sent to the mound...
This week the Liberals capitulated. Still pale and weak, Premier De Gasperi announced a six-party Cabinet. The purge would continue under Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni. As he and his ministers took their oaths in the Quirinal Palace, Alcide de Gasperi cried out in relief: "You wouldn't believe it, but now my cold is cured...
...first, few had picketed. But as the strike dragged on, savings vanished, war bonds were cashed. By last week the steadily mounting total of relief picketers reached 3,700, eating up $35,000 to $40,000 weekly in union funds...