Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ladies, I wish you would stop talking about the high prices of meat until you are ready to help bring them down. During the depression you were glad to get the cheaper cuts of meat, but now I can't even sell them...
Wallace became one of F.D.R.'s favorites and, in 1940, his Vice President. The real New Deal was already over. F.D.R., preparing for war, was turning to the right. He saw in Wallace a man who could help him keep the far left loyal to the Democratic Party. He sent him on missions to Central America and China and made his name known the world over...
...Reckoning. Within a couple of hours of the blast, hundreds of U.S. soldiers sped over the rickety Rhine bridge from Mannheim in the U.S. zone to bring help. They came with bulldozers to cut a path through the debris, with giant cranes to lift twisted girders off the dead and dying, with gas masks which proved invaluable when chemical fumes threw back rescue workers. As the fires raged on into the night, these G.I.s, led by quiet little Lieut. Colonel Walter F. Partin of Nashville, Tenn., worked without pause, performing a thousand acts of heroism in the smoke & flames. Bulldozing...
Installed as Dunbar's new director, Campbell promptly fired all 16 teachers as substandard, gathered a white and Negro faculty of 74 to help him build a bigger & better high school. He set up 23 tough vocational courses, begged or borrowed $2,000,000 worth of machines and equipment. School enrollment has jumped from 125 pupils to 1,650 (400 of them Negro war veterans...
Angel. The hard-pressed British film industry, aching from financial bruises despite the soothing balm of U.S. critics, got some help from the government. Because private investors have shied away from the industry, the Board of Trade set up a $20 million fund to lend to distribution companies and independent producers at low interest rates. The board hopes to step up film production enough so that British theaters can show British movies 45% of the time, thus meet the new quota regulations against U.S. films. Hod Royalty. With building trade wages at a record high, bricklayers in New York were...