Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tear up their old pay tables, get to work on new ones. Reason: Congress had voted, along with conscription, to attract young volunteers into the Army and Marine Corps by upping the pay of buck privates from $21 to $30 a month. Also voted were increases for first-class privates (from $30 to $36 a month), corporals ($42 to $54), sergeants ($54 to $60).* The raises would be effective only after four months of service. To many prospective volunteers these looked like niggardly bribes. But privates, corporals, sergeants already in the Army welcomed a move to bring their pay nearer...
...early as 4 p.m. thousands began queuing up at public shelters. As they once did for theatre crowds, street singers stood by with their melancholy entertainment. Tens of thousands paid three halfpenny (about 3?) tube fares for a grimy plot of platform on which to sleep. Working-class people, with dirty blankets, tattered pillows, paper bags containing desperate entertainments-such as knitting and cards-and nourishment-such as beer and bananas-crowded the ill-ventilated way stations. The Home Secretariat ordered the police to clear the subways, but the police dared not carry out the order. The smelly...
Questions & Answers. Great nations do not ordinarily fall without somebody, even some whole class, getting the blame and getting it in the neck. The actual trials at Riom were scheduled to be held in open court, and there France and the world were due to hear some interesting answers to some interesting questions...
Despite the better brand of pitching "the Lupe" found the going fairly easy in the minors. At Scranton, a Red Sox farm in the Class A Eastern League, he ended up the season with a .319 batting average and fielded .989, making only eight errors...
...committee is chosen with the aim of getting a group which will as far as possible represent all elements in the Freshman class, from the point of view of geographical distribution, high school and private school divisions, and location in the Yardling dormitories...