Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Nov. 3 Idaho's Senior Citizens won a notable victory over the Idaho Taxpayers' League. A Townsend-blessed pension plan appeared on the ballot, was approved by Idaho voters. Benefits: $40 a month after age 65; $8 a month extra for those who need wooden legs, glass eyes, dentures, medical care; $100 for funeral expenses. Said Lewis Williams, State Director of Charitable Institutions: "The people want grandpa and grandma to have these pensions, no matter what they cost...
...fact that they have plenty of tankers. This is a fuel war, yet the Japs have enough tankers to use them for other military cargoes. The Japs have also converted whalers to be seaplane and landing-craft tenders, and they are now busily building a fleet of wooden junks, for coastal bay-hopping. Overland routes on the continent are beginning to relieve coastal shipping of part of its load. So far, Japan's shipping shortage is less acute than that of the Allies...
...Germans had failed in their chief attempt to break through and save their Stalingrad army, Correspondent Kerr traced the history of Axis disaster. In a park which the Germans had made a cemetery when Kotelnikov was securely theirs, the German graves lay between neat rows of bricks, and wooden crosses, bore the name, birth date and rank of each soldier. Then there were shallow graves, marked rudely and in haste. On the battlefields outside the town, the German bodies rotted where they had fallen...
...Army physical at the central Chicago recruiting station consists of running an endless gauntlet of corrugated wooden booths, each dedicated to one specific branch of medical science. The psychiatrist, I remember, came somewhere between venereal diseases and athlete's feet...
Classes at Longfellow Hall and at the new wooden Carey Auditorium at Soldiers Field will take up most of the WAVES day, but they will be free from 4 to 7:30 o'clock in the evening. After that they study till 10, and have until 11 o'clock to get to bed. No one knows yet what official WAVES policy is in regard to civilian dates, and there is no accounting for their personal policy...