Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Statisticians Out. Because of Chang's role of Nanking moderate, the West read last week's news from China with satisfaction. The moderates, with the non-Kuomintang liberals, seemed to have a solid majority in the new State Council, and Chiang seemed to be on their side...
...over prewar-a minimum of $365 one way. Other rates are up as much as 50% (lowest fare: $165, tourist class). Other liners have boosted prices proportionately. But such figures will be purely academic to travelers unless they have their space already allotted. Practically all ships are booked solid to September, with few cancellations coming in. Example: for the 852 berths on its three ships, Holland America Line has a waiting list of 10,000. Most ship operators frankly admit that only one out of every 25 applicants can expect to get to Europe or return via ship. But passage...
Financial troubles of a new kind have descended upon the '49 Red Book, but some solid support by Class members who have not yet subscribed will bring the book out of the red, business manager J. Rosson Overcash '49 announced last night...
Britons received this pronouncement calmly. After five days' close acquaintance, they had discovered that there was little solid fare beneath the fervid preaching and the tousled charm. Personally, they liked him. But they failed to see why he should cause such excitement...
...sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...