Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheat saved in University dining halls today in the AVC sponsored plan will be shipped to Scotland aboard a Christmas relief vessel. Financial contributions to the shipment may be addressed to the S. S. Yankee Friendship, Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...slowdown began as soon as the House Foreign Affairs Committee reported out its $590 million relief bill (including a $67 million cut in the Administration's program, a $60 million dividend for China). Before it could reach the House floor, it had to be routed through the Rules Committee, headed by Illinois' Isolationist Leo Allen. The Rules Committeemen had their crowbars poised and ready...
...battle-scarred Negro, who looked like Jack Benny's Rochester, had seen so many ups & downs that one more wouldn't hurt, either way. He had quit the ring several times. In those intervals he had driven an ice truck, mixed cement, gone on relief at $9.50 a week to support his wife and six kids. But once he got a chance to fight Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott (his unferocious real name was Arnold Raymond Cream*) went about his preparations thoroughly. He studied movies of Louis' fights, like a football coach looking for weakness in enemy defenses...
...everyone's relief, the secret was out. Last week a Fort Worth matron, Mrs. Ruth Annette Subbie, 45, answered her telephone, sobbing with excitement, screamed out the identity of "Miss Hush" (Dancer Martha Graham), and won the biggest heap of prizes in radio history: $21,500 worth. After last fortnight's broad hints (TIME, Dec. 8), the mystery of Miss Hush was no longer very mysterious. For Dancer Graham it had been a big publicity binge. For the March of Dimes it had been worth at least $350,000. For Listener Subbie it was more of the same...
Among books by U.S. critics were Van Wyck Brooks's mellow The Times of Melville and Whitman; Edmund Wilson's jarringly narrow-minded Europe Without Baedeker; Lloyd Morris' genre pieces in Postscript to Yesterday. Welcome relief from the weedlike academicism that is choking American criticism were V. S. Pritchett's urbane, pleasant but acute essays on English writers in The Living Novel...