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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name patrons, the organization has operated genteelly on a "normal" budget of about $1,000 a month. Of its claimed 10,000 members, only 4,500 are dues payers ($2 a year). Federal Union, Inc., as Board Chairman A. J. G. Priest once said, has "tried to save the world on a shoestring...
...Control. Informed Britons realize that their ultimate survival depends as much on a solution as on beating Hitler. They are united on the need, divided on how to achieve it. Advocates of private monopoly want to establish world cartels, fix prices by private agreement, guide the flow of goods, save private enterprise. It is an old, accustomed practice...
Advanced Fantasy. At 49, James Thurber is a greying, railish six-footer who has been prolific of achievement in the face of physical handicap. For years specialists have been fighting to save Thurber's one remaining eye. The other was accidentally put out by an arrow in the hands of his eldest brother when James...
...impact of internal organs themselves, but by food in the stomach, urine in the bladder, blood in a chamber of a man's heart. Captain Hass said that if doctors had known of these crash effects in the past, many victims could have been diagnosed in time to save their lives by simple operations. Lieut. Colonel W. Randolph Lovelace, retiring president of the Association, called the paper the most important given before the Association in its 15-year history...
Friendly Fellow. That Quentin Reynolds has a nose for incident and a lively narrative style has been amply demonstrated since World War II began. Save for a few visits home to the U.S., he has spent most of the war in Europe as Collier's foreign correspondent. As such, he has covered battle actions (e.g., Dieppe), averaged 20 Collier's pieces plus a couple of books a year, moved enthusiasts to call him the Richard Harding Davis of World...