Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia last week meant just that. Australians were stripped for action and fighting mad. The gingerbread was gone. War profits were cut, all business and industry under strict control, the personal actions and property of every man and woman subject to Government orders. "There are three means of service," said Curtin: "in the fighting forces, in the labor forces, in the essential industries...
...Boston office must fill its quota of 1000 men by July 1, and will take applications at any time. The volunteer must have four letters of recommendation and a letter from a doctor certifying that he is physically fit. The examination is not as strict as the Army one, and eyes may be corrected with glasses...
...Endameba histolytica, a one-celled parasite, often produces lifelong intestinal ailments. Dysentery temporarily incapacitated almost 2,000,000 men in the Civil War. Since dysentery organisms dwell in contaminated food and water, the disease can be prevented, as it was in World War I, by rigid cleanliness in cooking, strict inspection of food handlers, water and supplies...
Landry decided to apply a showman's standards to the great U.S. indoor amusement. His first "Showmanship Survey" in 1933, in which he gave U.S. stations strict ratings on local enterprise, resulted in gey sers of protest, including a four-page lament from NBC's then President Merlin Hall Aylesworth charging "commercial libel." Landry responded with two more surveys at six -month intervals, after which the survey became an annual event (TIME, Dec. 29). Landry's conclusion about...
...Prime Minister and Military Governor, Nahas Pasha promised the ragged fellahin (peasants) and lower-middle-class shopkeepers in his Party that "draconic measures would be taken against rabble-rousers." Having protested against "the horrors of war" in already embattled Egypt, in the next breath, he promised the British strict adherence to the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Pact (making Egypt and Britain wartime allies) which Nahas Pasha, accompanied by the wealthy, plump young bride he married late in life, signed personally in London. This done, he called an election, remembering that in 1937, Farouk's electioneers had slugged and cheated...