Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blustering Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan got called to personal account for the high cost of socialized dentistry. Demanded M.P. Frank Medlicott: "Has the minister calculated how much of the greatly increased expenditure is caused by the fact that every time he makes a speech there is widespread gnashing of teeth...
...dropped below 60 million (to 59.8 million) for the first time in five months. Part of the drop was due to greater industrial efficiency. Since the first of the year, Western Electric Co. alone had cut back its work force by 25,000. In Connecticut, layoffs were so widespread that the Stamford-Greenwich Manufacturers' Council called a conference to discuss means of reducing them...
Radcliffe is slowly shaking off a minor epidemic of intestinal disturbances, reports last night showed. Though Health Center officials denied the existence of any widespread illness, Briggs Hall recorded 17 perecent and Bertram Hall 14 percent casualties...
Black Torrent. Like Nanking, Shanghai had calmed down slightly after widespread riots early in the week. Soothed by an emergency airlift of rice, and the promise of 8,000 tons more on the way from Hong Kong, Shanghailanders carried on much as usual. Coolies with shiny brass kitchenware hung from shoulder poles weaved through traffic banging their pans by way of advertisement. The usual crush of pedicabs surged down the street...
...fear was widespread that if the Communists won the battle of Suchow, raging crowds would spread destruction through Nanking and Shanghai. To bolster morale for the time being, a giant "Victory Parade" was ordered in Nanking. U.S. military experts on the spot did not believe that the government would have a victory to celebrate...