Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Today there are some 300 miniature-auto racing clubs in the U. S., some 9,000 enthusiasts (90% adult) who proudly call themselves spindizzies. The pioneering Doolings, who have turned their hobby into a livelihood, now tool out 600 little Doolings a month, have 20-odd competitors...
...clock one morning last week catastrophe struck Guam. Roaring out of the typhoon belt, a big wind sheared overland at 110 miles an hour, wiped out the banana crop. 90% of the coconut crop, all garden crops-chief livelihood of some 20,000 natives-smashed the Pan American Hotel and U. S. Navy hangar, left 40 American families and 15,000 natives homeless. When it was over, Governor McMillin called for Red Cross aid. First reports indicated that the typhoon approached the scale of the great blow of 1900. But that storm cost 20 lives; last week's, none...
...found that only 10 per cent of Italians are definitely anti-Fascist, and that 50 per cent are too busy earning their livelihood to be concerned with American or Italian politics. Few Italian immigrants would be dangerous to the U.S., if they were left alone by their government, Professor Salvemini says...
...hole medal round, five strokes too many to qualify him for the match play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score-140 (71-69), second lowest in Amateur history...
...guest of honor before the Canadian Club and the Empire Club of Canada. Wide he opened his mouth, and firmly he put his foot in it. Said he, referring to his fellow U. S. citizens : "To me, it is only too apparent that the life, the liberty, the livelihood and the very safety of this same neutral citizen may be dependent upon the outcome of the present war." The outcome Minister Cromwell hoped for, he made clear, was the victory of the Allies. Picturing himself as a sentry who "sees approaching a force which frankly and openly seeks to destroy...