Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Wave & Look Happy." Meanwhile, the port of Wonsan was evacuated by elements of the Army's 3rd Division, which were moved 50 miles north by sea to help hold a perimeter around Hamhung and Hungnam. The R.O.K. 3rd and Capital Divisions, which had also been evacuated by sea far up the northeastern coast, arrived to strengthen the defense arc around Hamhung. The U.S. 3rd formed a rescue force which rolled up the Changjin road and joined the hard-pressed marines and G.I.s of the southbound column, a few miles from Koto. The rescue party had been given the formidable...
...Luce always had more urgent things to think about: one night in 1908, for instance, at a time when confinements, complete with delivery, grossed him $8 apiece, he traveled by streetcar through a blizzard to help a young mother give birth to triplets. All were forceps deliveries. Midway through the business the young father, who was helping out as anesthetist, fainted dead away. Dr. Luce left him on the floor and carried on alone. A year later he was going sleepless to make 40 calls a day by foot and by buggy in an effort to halt a milk-borne...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...
...Help or Hurt? Next day FRB's Chairman Thomas B. McCabe read everyone a lesson on the theory and practice of credit controls. First off, said McCabe, Regulation W was doing just exactly what it was supposed to do: "It has limited the rise in prices in the durable goods field [and] has removed some of the pressure which would have hampered diversion of materials and manpower to the military effort." In the first few weeks of the Korean war, said McCabe, the average price of 1949 used cars in the popular-price lines rose from...
...Administration's excess-profits tax, they were ready to go along with a boost in corporate and other taxes. Some of them, notably Lewis H. Brown, Johns-Manville board chairman, talked as tough about taxes as anyone in Washington. He asked for a $25 billion hike to help combat inflation and balance the budget...