Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on your matter-of-fact treatment of the scientific side of the atomic bomb [TIME, Aug. 20]. After having struggled with the Sunday supplement-like nonsense which the newspapers have been printing recently on the subject, it was welcome relief...
Clerks packed up documents for the return. Lights burned late as administrators wrestled with the problems of transport and relief, and with the larger problem of adjusting a nation to a new era. At the top of the pyramid of state moved the alert, taut, indefatigable Generalissimo, the first architect of victory and now the first hope of peace...
...Hunger & Relief. There was still no comprehensive picture of what Japanese rule had done to China's cities and countryside. Canton was all but moribund. Shanghai's masses were desperately hungry; 1,500,000 of her workers were jobless, and 20,000 prostitutes prowled her streets. But Shanghai still had her factories; once their wheels rolled, the metropolis would hum again and Shanghai might well be the mirror of the nation's revival...
Reconstruction. In 18 months, the planners at Chungking hoped, the pressing problems of remigration and relief would be reduced. Then China could truly launch her era of national reconstruction. The Kuomintang Congress of last May had laid down the broad principles...
...Manpower Commission estimate, the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges have broken down the figures to a Veterans' Administration need for 15,000, the Army's for 10,000, the Navy's for 5,000-plus unestimated thousands more for civilians and relief agencies. Last week WMC launched a campaign to persuade 12,000 discharged veterans to enroll in medical or dental courses...