Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there weren't enough trouble in the world, there came a report last week of more ahead. Europe's and Asia's millions, living at best frugally, in some cases on starvation diets, are facing an even sterner winter than 1946-47. There is going to be less food to send them...
...carried yo the burial ground, behind an icon; in their hands was placed a piece of paper with a prayer for the repose of their souls. This prompted an early Moscow correspondent, who had discovered that there was less freedom of movement in Moscow than anywhere in Europe, to report: "The Russ, when he dies, hath his passport to St. Nicolas buried with...
...cabinet ministers' cars and little knots of people gathered around to listen. All over the Republic, in the village plazas and city zócalos, Mexicans gathered near the loudspeakers to hear President Miguel Alemán's sober address at the opening of Congress. "This report," said he, "cannot be as alluring as we might have wished...
McGregor's 25-man commission, which operates chiefly from tips, began work last year when dentistry reports at the University of Toronto complained about the cost of dental supplies. The commission, in a 98-page report last week, charged that: 1) the Canadian Dental Trade Association is a monopoly; 2) it suppresses competition by controlling about 85% of the _Dominion's dental-supplies business; 3) it gouges Canada's 4,602 dentists by fixing prices (sample: a dental chair that costs $695 in the U.S. costs $957 in Canada...
Nobody had a full explanation for western Canada's worst train wreck.* A preliminary report, from Ottawa's Transport Board, said that No. 4 had the right of way, that the Minaki Special had come into Dugald too fast. But no one explained why Canadian railroads are still using old gaslit, wooden hand-me-downs...