Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Cremin, who has sent $1,000 to. Dr. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, through TIME [May 29]. Perhaps this noble gesture will attract the attention of the chemical companies who will commercialize and market this "wonder drug" and make them realize that it would be only fair to let Drs. Fleming & Florey share their great profits...
...desperately digging out. A press-radio campaign begging housewives to buy more eggs had only fair results. For one thing, housewives could not understand why the egg price had to stay up at 55? a dozen, when millions of eggs were going bad for lack of buyers. Then WFA sold 100 of the piled-up carloads at $30 each for livestock feed. Critics saw a major scandal. Why, they demanded, were eggs that WFA had bought for something like $6,000 a carload dumped as cattle feed rather than dehydrated or stored? WFA's answers...
...field at fair speed, wheels down, and it seemed as though we were going to nose over when Root braked her to a dead stop. We piled...
Long Odds. As a precision instrument of war the robot is something to make soldiers weep. It probably cannot be "aimed" at any target smaller than a fair-sized city. The Germans themselves admitted that it could not be used on the Normandy battleground without endangering their own troops...
...Beaches. In the fair fields where the tide had rolled, the ground was littered with the debris of battle- tanks, jeeps, rifles, ration tins, bulldozers, first-aid kits, canteens. Everywhere lay the dead-weltering in the waves along the shore, lying heaped in ditches, sprawling on the beaches. Here & there in trees hung the shattered body of a paratrooper. In field hospitals, the wounded lay. The smell of ether mingled with the smell of earth. Probably no one yet knew the price that had been paid for the first week in Normandy...