Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frossia is the story of a girl who remained. A Russian chronicle of 358 pages, it is a documentary novel as solid and as solemn as a collection of social workers' case histories, formless, agonized, repetitious, linked only by the personality of Frossia, who in turn is kept going by her faith in a Russia that survives revolutions, the Tcheka, the Comintern, and remains the same...
...answers to a Gallup question assuming that the war in Europe will be nearly over on Election Day, but mentioning neither the Pacific war nor the peace terms. Here Roosevelt wins by 51%-to-49%. But a breakdown by regions shows him leading Dewey only in the Solid South. In terms of an actual election this would mean a Dewey victory, since a Democrat with a useless surplus of Southern votes must get about 52% of the national popular vote in order to win. The figures...
...white-supremacy issue, the South was still solid...
...Inconstant Supply. But how to meet this demand without interruption, befuddled Selective Service had not yet firmly decided. This week, after stern threats to draft every eligible man, regardless of family status (and of many formerly solid claims to occupational exemption), S.S. changed its tack again...
Catto became the Admiralty representative of the Russian Commission in America during World War I, later transferred to the British Food Mission. Between wars his career was solid business. He went to India for the great Andrew Yule & Co. (cable address: Yuletide), and in 1930 became a partner in Morgan Grenfell & Co., at that time J. P. Morgan & Co., which still has a large investment in the company. In 1940 he resigned all director ships to accept an unpaid, specially created job as advisor to the British Treasury...