Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bengal leader, Subhas Chandra Bose. He was a traitor in British eyes for helping the Japs; but to Indians Bose was a patriot. The holy Ganges would revert to the Sanskrit form, Ganga. Madras would become Chennapatnam. The city of Rajahmundry would become Rajamahendravaram, which would be harder to spell, but since 87% of Indians could not write that would not matter so much...
...Federal Board of Geographic Names broke the spell of a muggy July day with an ice-cold footnote to history: Franklin Roosevelt had once declined the honor of having an Antarctic sea named for him. The President had informed the board that he would much prefer "a smoking volcano" to a frozen ocean. The board informed the President that it was fresh out of smoking volcanoes...
Jimmy Stewart, starting his Broadway spell in Harvey, produced a thought for Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen. "Long dresses," he said, "are going to interfere with a very fine hobby...
Danger & Nerves. Hopp & Linder made a substrata survey of fields where there was no protective covering, discovered that all earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...
...Said Union President William Lawlor: "The books proved that a major portion of this surplus was invested in inventory. They also showed that the company, since V-J day, has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in designing and tooling new model machine tools. Both these points, to us, spell job security. A general wage increase at this time would put an undue strain on the company's resources." The union withdrew its 15?-an-hour demand, settled for six paid holidays (equivalent to a 3?-an-hour raise). In September, when the present contract expires, the union will...