Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marketing of meat swings back to normal in the wake of yesterday's lifting of price controls, University larders will be stocked with the regular quotas of meat in about ten days, according to information received last night from Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University...
...would still require Fund approval, some economists groused that the Fund's chief club against the practice of "exporting unemployment" had now been whittled down to twig-size. But it was an easy concession for the U.S. to make. With wages and other costs skyrocketing, the U.S. might wake up any day and find its own dollar priced too high, might want to devalue it to boost exports...
...American Legion convention shook Boston to the marrow of its Brahmin bones. The car-tipping and bonfires, the water-bombs zooming from windows had moved the Harvard Crimson to shudder, "worse than a drunken football crowd." Local rowdies helped tear up the town in the boozy wake of World War I Legionnaires...
Russians tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...
Beer & Jokes. Next day, 11,000 Republican ward heelers, precinct captains and office seekers roared into the fairgrounds, leaving a wake of blended whiskey, cold beer and old Roosevelt jokes. They came by special train, bus, airplane, automobile caravan. They were cocky, noisy, full of fire. As farmers on the midway gaped, they clamored into the race-track grandstand for their own fun & fireworks...