Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Meanwhile, female workers in a large Derbyshire plant petitioned the directors to let them go stockingless -hitherto considered "not done" in the shires - and promised if this plea was granted to put $5,000 yearly of "stocking money" into national savings. That the Government must use drastic means to keep exports as high as possible was evident from the latest British trade figures released last week. These showed September 1940 exports were valued at ?31,000,000 ($124,000,000) and imports at ?80,000,000 ($320,000,000); whereas the figures for September 1939 were: exports...
Over half a million camp beds for use in home shelters have now been sold in London alone and "Blitzbachelors" (husbands who have sent their wives to the country for safety) are doffing British decorum to sleep nightly in the narrow family shelters on cots beside the cots of their housemaids. A bomb last week ripped the side wall off a Mayfair mansion of stately appearance, revealed it to have been one of London's most sumptuously equipped bagnios. The walls were covered with erotic frescos rivaling those of Pompeii, and a giggling crowd soon gathered on the sidewalk...
...round rubber tree is Brazil's Hevea brasiliensis, and for decades Pará was another name for rubber. As world demand arose, grew, skyrocketed, upper Amazon adventurers rose to be bloody kings and barons. Their technique was simple: enslavement, torture, rape, starvation and murder, plus a fantastic use of company-store methods that had washerwomen in sleazy evening gowns and everybody in debt till the year after eternity. Hundreds of miles up the jungle rivers they fought feudal wars with one another. At the height of the rubber boom in 1909-10, rubber...
...Newman makes some excuses for the quints: 1) they were born prematurely; 2) "They have but little use for spoken language. All their wants are anticipated and all their activities are scheduled"; 3) they have no playmates, have nothing to say to each other; 4) their parents, according to Dr. Newman, "exhibit nothing exceptional in the way of mentality." In spite of these handicaps the quints are "good, normal human beings of almost average mental ability...
...silent meditation in a quiet corner and have music of words, you will get it from this poet. But if you want clarity on human issues, he's out - he's zero . . .antidemocratic . . medievalist . . . royalist . . . and so close to Fascist that I'm off him, to use a truck driver's phrase. And we've got to consider the truck drivers in the present hour, rather than the intellectuals...