Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dingaan the Vulture was one of Darkest Africa's crudest black despots.* In 1838 a column of 600 Boers in white covered wagons was trekking northward from the Cape colony into Natal; the bearded Voortrekkers (pioneers), who wanted to get away from the hated British and find new homes...
West Germany is desperately short of housing (it needs an estimated 8,000,000 two-room apartments). More than a third of the West Germans live in close, degrading quarters, whole families cramped into fetid, single rooms, the sick and infirm bedded beside the children. Nerves wear thin, minds grow...
Inquiry then turned to the unidentified shipper. The taxi driver who had brought her to the airport recalled that she had asked him to drive carefully, saying: "These aren't eggs I'm carrying." Investigators soon discovered that she was Mrs. Marie Pitre, a 41-year-old Quebec...
Lord Beaverbrook's anti-Socialist London Express fumed with disappointment: "The picture emerging from the Tory statement is that of half-socialized, state-guided economy ... If Britain is going to recover by the methods of Socialism, would it not be wiser to keep the Socialists in power?"
Slichier stated that "the community, in the main, will remain laboristic," but he added, "business will recover part of the intellectual initiative which it has lost in the last generation. As a result, the community, which is in danger of being transformed from one in which business was dominant to...