Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the Government's program to air-condition youngsters. Dr. Wood, touring the nation to explain the new geography to schoolteachers, unveiled his new map (the "air age" projection. supplanting Mercator's) before a group of teachers and principals in Chicago. It will be the official text for geography lessons in schools throughout the land this term...
...glasses!") As keynoter of the Connecticut convention, she clearly stated her concern with the terrible necessity of making democracy work in the middle of the war-to-end-civilization, and the editors who saw that she had ably stated the general concerns of many citizens reprinted here & there her text in full. Excerpts...
...text of the official statement of the Secretary of War, released on September 10, covering the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps is as follows...
...text: 1942 farm incomes will top those of 1939 by nearly 75%. Wage earners will get 70% more than in 1939. The past year's wage boosts represent a 30% money increase and an 11% increase in things a worker's money will actually buy. Living costs have not even begun to catch up and $84 billions in civilian hands are fighting to buy $75 billions' worth of civilian goods...
...newsmen, the Army's handling of the whole bungled affair suggested a more appropriate text from Matthew 6, 3: "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth...