Word: swollenness
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...becoming the biggest union in the U.S., last week U.A.W. was fairly busting its pants. In two years its dues-paying membership had tripled, was around half a million. Its bank account had swollen 650% to a fat $439,663. Holding its sixth convention, in Buffalo, chesty U.A.W. changed its name to the United Auto, Aircraft and Agricultural Implements Workers, announced a membership goal of 1,000,000 in the next four years...
...financing or even seeming to finance the war is enormous. Besides the $50,000,000-a-day cost of fighting, there are interminable extras. Some ?60,000,000 ($240,000,000) has been spent on air-raid shelters, public and private. Government payrolls are hugely swollen. (The Food Ministry alone eats up $18,000,000 annually, the Ministry of Information...
...James Forrestal of the Navy, agreed to the expansion in two "secret" meetings, from which the news leaked out as quickly as if they had met on the Capitol steps. The money ($800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000) will come mostly from Jesse Jones's newly swollen coffers. Anti-expansionists described the increase as "precautionary." But if Messrs. Grace and Fairless, lately of the "we have plenty" school, had agreed to 10,000,000 tons, they might later agree to more...
Oxygen. Five years ago, Anesthetist John Henry Evans of Buffalo began to inject oxygen under the skin of swollen joints, to dull pain. He discovered that the oxygen often "has beneficial effects" on early arthritis and other inflammations of nerves, muscles, joints. Said Dr. Evans: "Within 24 hours . . . after injection . . . the local temperature drops; the redness disappears; the swelling is reduced, and the tissues become much less sensitive to pressure...
Anticipating a swollen sing line of Harvard males, the Radcliffe dance committee, which includes Elinor Horn, Vivian Wolfe, Judith Fridberg, Mary Douglas, and Diana Mowrer, has arranged for mass exchange dances...