Word: isn
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...want to register a faint squawk about an item in TIME of June 10. In the piece about Yugoslavia it says "No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center." That just isn't true because we have several hundred a day at ours and the British a few less, and there has been no noticeable slackening of attendance in recent weeks...
...word could describe India, it would be poverty. The ignorance of the farmer, the infant mortality rate, the cholera epidemics, the biannual famine, are all results of the unhappy fact that there isn't enough to eat. India, whose population totals almost 400 million, and whose land area is actually a subcontinent, must import rice from Burma and Thailand. Her own production, per acre, is only one-third that of Japan. The average farmer earns about twenty dollars a year, when his land yields anything. When it fails, as it does so often, he gets into the statistics...
...First Service Command announced last weekend that 7,589 vacancies are available for national guard and reserve officers interested in returning to active duty, and a trip to the Boston Post Office is all that has to be done. Plain, ordinary A.U.S. brass isn't being slighted, either; apply, and they hand you a reserve or national guard commission...
WASHINGTON --Sen. Theodore G. "The Man" Bilbo, (D.), Miss., isn't going to stand for defeat, even if "it's a joke, son," and he gets $500-a-week...
Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl isn't the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...