Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With him went his military and naval aides. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, omnipresent Harry Hopkins. Overnight by train they went to Portsmouth. N. H. At the Navy's great base across the river at Kittery, Me. the President saw three new submarines on the ways, two more keels laid down, more men (6,000) at work than were there during World War I. Awaiting the party was the President's yacht Potomac. At Nahant, Mass, they paused for the President's first look at his newest (tenth) grandchild, two-month-old Haven Roosevelt (who declined...
...without legs, men with hollow, tubercular chests walk the streets of Madrid, Burgos, Barcelona. So do hollow-eyed women in mourning and women who look out of blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
...says, that more accidents occur in football per playing hour than in any other game. But the injuries are usually slight, consist mostly of sprained ankles, wrenched knees, muscle bruises. Only compound fracture he ever treated in an athlete was suffered by a baseball player who slid to second base. Hockey seldom produces more than minor cuts, although the worst case Dr. Thorndike ever treated was a hockey player who lost his eye in a scrimmage...
...were ahead. Most cheerful note of all was struck by the Federal Reserve Board, which last week published its long-overdue revised index of production. Adding 23 important but hitherto neglected industrial series (machinery, aircraft, liquor, rayon, chemicals, etc.) to its index, revising the weightings and employing a new base period (1935-39 instead of 1923-25), the Federal Reserve Board found business much better than its old index had shown. For June, the new index (if calculated as a percentage of 1923-25, like the old) would be 139, against the old index...
...Canada. Last week the New York Herald Tribune made another proposal: that Canada and the U. S. sign a pact of mutual defense. Its argument: the U. S. could make such a treaty without U. S. involvement in World War II; staff talks could be started; a North Atlantic base be secured. There was no question that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly explored regions of the Northwest Territories, through Arctic tundra, through...