Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legumes. They terrace their steeper fields skillfully, plow on the contour instead of up & down hill. On thousands of once sterile slopes, the miraculous vine, kudzu, clambers like Jack's beanstalk. It chokes devouring gullies with entangled soil. It buries fences, leaps into trees. Its big leaves, which stay green until Christmas, are as nourishing to cattle as excellent alfalfa. When plowed under, kudzu enriches the soil...
Coming at China's darkest hour, the fall of Mukden, after the government's stubborn attempt to stay in Manchuria, gravely affected public confidence in the regime. Economic pressure forced the government at week's end to give up its price-control program as a failure, unfreeze price and wage ceilings. Overnight Shanghai prices increased four to five times. The new gold yuan (TIME, Aug. 30) had started on the same giddy spiral as the old Chinese national dollar...
...role in North Atlantic defense. At week's end, Prime Minister-Designate Louis St. Laurent, long an apostle of North Atlantic security, said gravely: "Canada cannot possibly remain neutral in a third world war even if 11,999,999 out of 12,000,000 Canadians want to stay out ... A third world war would produce results that cannot be conceived. But we believe there is a way such a happening can be prevented...
Eastern Airlines has a plane today at 2:35 p.m., you'll make Princeton by 5:56 p.m. after a 13-minute stay in Newark...
...formula behind the achievement liad been painfully simple: eat less, work more, which to British planners meant: cut imports, increase exports. If it worked once, said the White Paper, it ought to work again. Britons might get a few more eggs, otherwise rations would stay the same. On this dreary diet they were being asked during the coming year to hike production by roughly the same percentages as they had achieved in the past year...