Word: availability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horrified, Mrs. Hanowell protested to local radio stations-to no avail. She wrote sponsors and got no answer. Then she began to distribute petitions to "eliminate such programs." The petitions spread through Washington, she says, "like wildfire." By months of furious fanning, Mrs. Hanowell spread the blaze into 44 states, got 350,000 names on her petitions. Recently the state organizations incorporated into the National Council for Youth Entertainment, talked of erecting a building, of getting after comic books and mystery movies once radio's hash was settled...
...permit students to familiarize themselves with House food, Union members are being permitted to take a meal in each of the seven Houses. Students desiring to avail themselves of this opportunity must apply in person at the checker's desk in the Union...
...Maragha's solution would not avail against the subtler and more important Communist methods. Last week's news brought into new prominence three old Communist techniques (see below) that the world needed to understand more clearly, because future Communist efforts would be exerted along these and parallel lines...
...walled Suiyuan railway and mining town where one of the civil war's bloodiest encounters took place. After 23 of his company had died and he was forced to retreat, depression gripped Wang. He asked himself and his men: "Why do we Chinese fight against Chinese? Of what avail was this sacrifice at Tsining...
...General David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Said Doolittle to rocket-rattled Swedes: "I would like to see a rocket very much." Said Sarnoff: "Show me a rocket and I will tell you from where it comes and how big it is. If the Swedish Government wants to avail itself of my services, I will be glad to oblige...