Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nieman Fellows will be represented by Willard Browne, of the Sacramento Union, John Day, of the Huntington, West Virginia Associated Press, Fred Warner Neal, of the Washington Bureau of the Wall Street Journal, Robert Okin, of the New York City Associated Press, and William Townes of the Cleveland Press...
Rigid Requirements. In Sacramento, the U.S. Employment Service got a request for six laborers who would fit the six pairs of size nine rubber boots which the prospective employer still...
...From Augusta, Me. to Sacramento, Calif. almost all Legislatures had passed resolutions in favor of doing their work speedily and going home. Last week the Indianapolis News heaped scorn on the Indiana Legislature: "With utter fearlessness the Legislature at last is getting around to the business of doing something final and remedial about the bullfrog crisis. In the process of enactment also are war measures dealing with the mussel, the raccoon and the migratory tomcat...
Changed Hours. Meanwhile the stores jam through one operation change after another. To take care of war workers and extra-busy housewives, most stores stay open until 9 or 10 one or two nights a week. To offset the transportation pinch a Sears, Roebuck outlet in Sacramento started a free bus service-a sales-getting scheme used for years in outlying Brooklyn districts. And counter revolutions go on endlessly: jams & jellies on the toilet-goods counter; dinnerware in the outlawed electrical-goods department; blackout accessories on the once-busy hosiery counter...
...Sacramento, a prophylactic station for civilians as well as soldiers has been established. Heretofore efforts to open stations in other cities have failed because the civilian, unlike the soldier, cannot be forced to report for treatment. (Commented one doctor: "Imagine the meeting of two persons at a prophylactic station after an affectionate parting an hour before!") But in four months (August-December 1941) 2,062 male civilians (with a like number of soldiers from nearby Mather Field) reported for treatment in Sacramento...