Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Experts" predicted that the famine would get worse, and stay that way for a year. But no one seemed able to agree on either its cause or cure. Manufacturers said there was a manpower shortage. War Manpower Commission retorted that manufacturers had made no requests for manpower, crossly added that they probably would not get it if they did. This year's cigaret production is higher than ever before, but manufacturers complained that the Government estimate-cigarets for civilians are being turned out at 90% of normal-was far too high...
...modern agriculture back to their native villages. At the end of the three-year course, the students get no degree, but they know how to farm. Says cagey Sam Zemurray, head of United Fruit: "If we give them degrees, they'll go into politics. We want them to stay on the farm...
...State began its final push (with support from Iowa, Purdue, Northwestern) in a campaign to crack the Big Nine rule against postseason games. This week, Conference representatives meeting in Chicago said no, this was not the year to break the 24-year-old rule. The Big Nine champs would stay home on New Year's Day, and unbeaten, once-tied Tennessee would doubtless make the trip to Pasadena...
...military merger of Britain and Belgium was only a first step. During Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to General de Gaulle, Communist influence had muffled talk of a Western Bloc (TIME, Nov. 20). But Foreign Minister Spaak would not stay muffled. He said: "I want to emphasize that the Dumbarton Oaks scheme made particular reference to what are called regional arrangements. Belgium can envisage the conclusion of a regional accord with France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and possibly Norway...
...marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended up as a professor of music in Lenoir, N.C. Her own big break came in 1939 when Soprano Grace Moore heard her, and sent her to Italy to study with famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli's teacher. Despite the war, Dorothy wanted to stay in Naples, but her worried family managed to get the U.S. consul to have her forcibly deported...