Word: swollenness
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Many a U.S. city, its population and pocketbook swollen by war work, has worried itself sick over an inevitable postwar collapse. Last week the city fathers of Portland, Ore. did something about...
Since the war Dr. Newman has had to make more sutures than ever. Bay Minette's 2,000 population has been swollen by wartime shipyard workers. Nearest hospitals in Mobile, 30 miles away, are so crowded expectant mothers in the Bay Minette area cannot get beds there...
...think that I'll tell you about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...
...Louise, the younger daughter, could not get out of bed. The doctor said first that it was just a swollen ankle, then, as her mother was relaxing in relief: "Suddenly a thought stabbed me. . . . There was no more laughing. Just low voices, talking, talking. . . . My husband stood looking out of the window. I felt queer. As if a burden had been lifted from me. . . . Dr. George Draper . . . said infantile paralysis was a strange disease. ... 'At present she has only the use of her left arm,' he said. 'Prognosis for life is fair...
...magazine publishers, many newspaper owners have been loth to ration their advertising or circulation; some of them have taken all they can get. Far from reducing newsprint consumption, a few U.S. metropolitan dailies have asked for (and gotten) extra paper to take care of increased business. In typical, war-swollen Seattle, circulations have soared-the Times is up 30% over a year ago-and so has advertising linage. On scores of papers the want-ad sections have blossomed into big cash-takers, as the manpower shortage forced employers to plead for "Girls...