Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...about to leave, the kids of Nguyen Van Tin's Anti-Communist Children lined up and burst into song: "With the help of the French and the Americans, we shall soon have a big air force...
Rickey backpedaled a bit. "Perhaps only one or two men are guilty," he said. That night the aroused Dodgers went out and beat the Boston Braves, to end a four-game losing streak. The next night, even Rickey's needling didn't help. There was nothing complacent about the way the Dodgers were swinging at Vernon Bickford's pitches, but for the life of them they could...
Philpot bought a dozen king snakes and, with the help of his pharmacology professor, Dr. Ralph G. Smith, set about extracting a serum which would be harmless in itself and still neutralize the venom of rattlers and moccasins. The first difficulty was to get enough blood out of a king snake. Eventually, Philpot hit upon the simple idea of cutting off the snakes' tails. In this way, he got as much as 40 cc of blood from a five-foot snake and 20 cc or more of serum from the blood...
Said General Motors Corp. Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. last week: "A dividend increase at this time will help to keep [stockholders'] returns since the war more in line with the increased cost of living." G.M.'s contribution to the cause: a fat $2.50 extra dividend on top of its regular $1.50 quarterly payment. All told, G.M. stockholders will get $176 million for the quarter, of which $40 million will go to Du Pont, biggest G.M. stockholder. G.M. dividends this year already amount to $7 a share v. 1949's total payment...
...House pressure. Another probable cause was the fact that both Gunderson and Hise had opposed Truman's plan to transfer RFC to the Commerce Department. Furthermore, Gunderson had bucked Truman's plans to aid small business with federal loans; Gunderson thought that a cut in taxes would help far more...