Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fail to note that the Church itself is a dictatorship that out-rivals the totalitarianism of Hitler or Mussolini...
That blow was a single historic note in a thunderous Allied bombardment of southern Italy. From Naples across the shank of the boot and down into the heel and toe, U.S. and British planes sought out harbors and ships, rail junctions and trains, highways and trucks. More than 700 Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Wellingtons devastated Foggia (62,000 population), key to Italy's east-coast railways and roads...
Army Orders. As the first note went into circulation the question popped up: Under what authority did the U.S. Treasury print a new type of currency? Coinage is the jealous right of Congress alone. The answer is in international law. A military commander in an occupied zone is the de facto government of the area. He can levy and collect taxes, issue money. The money was printed, not on orders of the U.S. Treasury, but on orders of the U.S. Army, which footed the printing bill...
...Ohio American Legion. In trying to answer it himself, hardheaded Mr. Hook, onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, brought forth no alchemical formula for postwar prosperity. He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent. Now Armco's president thinks it is time for other black books, for more old-fashioned thrift...
Humming in a Helmet. At this point, Acting Commissioner of City Planning Jim Rowan returned from lobbying in Washington. Rowan had reason to be grim. His beautiful actress wife, Niobe, had contracted hlehhana and had left him. She also left a note: "I feel perfectly humming and I haven't had anything. Not a drop. So I'm going right out to do all the other things I've always wanted to do, and God knows when I'll be back. The ice cream is in the oven...