Word: whole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 27) was anything but factual. TIME stated that "for months [Dr. Kopetzky] has been denouncing the National Health Program as 'a foreign importation,' " when as a matter of fact Dr. Kopetzky has been consistently opposed to Compulsory Health Insurance, not to the Health Program as a whole...
...Chairman Carter Glass* of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who remembers when the whole U. S. Govern-ment ran itself on a billion dollars a year, last week rose to his feet in horror. Before the Senate was a bill appropriating $1,218,000,000 to run the Department of Agriculture in fiscal 1940. He earnestly asked unanimous consent to reconsider the $383,000,000 which the Senate had added to the House version of the bill. Would not his colleagues give second thought before approving the biggest Farm Bill in U. S. history...
...combat was as high as 349.6 killed & wounded in one day of intense attack, more often was no to 150. Guessing for the next war, the U. S. Medical Corps expects 150 daily casualties (24 killed, 96 shot & wounded, 30 gassed) out of every 1,000 infantrymen in action. Whole armies, having one infantryman to two in other services and a big proportion of their troops in reserve, may expect an overall casualty rate...
...clever, scheming, 32-year-old Edda is no mean politician and diplomat. She was one of the behind-the-scenes architects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. As the apple of Papa Benito's eye, pro-German Daughter Edda was largely instrumental in persuading II Duce to go the whole hog in his attachment to the German Führer...
...decline of purchasing power for this year. The regime gains acquiescence from the majority because the industrial working class (approximately 40% of the population) has lost relatively less income than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what they were getting per capita in 1927. Hence it can be argued that Naziism has a mass base, even though forced contributions (party dues, winter relief, etc.) subtract considerably from workers' incomes. The decline in quality...