Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitchell, 45, was watching his sheep with a crook and a sharp-muzzled sheep dog one clear, shriveling-cold January night at the Home Farm outside Abbots Leigh village near Bristol. The sirens screamed at 5 o'clock, and Shepherd Mitchell was immediately surrounded by a blaze of 20th-century horror. Incendiaries fired his straw-and-wattle lambing pens, sheltering 34 ewes and lambs. High explosives followed the incendiaries and scared the wits out of the sheep dog, who promptly went A.W.O.L. for 24 hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near a terrified...
...Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"), and the tenth anniversary of its sequel, Pius XI's Quadragesima Anno ("Forty Years After"). In these two documents the Roman Catholic Church said its say about social reform, and with its age-old flexibility took steps to adapt itself to 20th-century social change as it had to feudalism in the Middle Ages and to capitalism after the Reformation...
...process of editing every week. Their backlog of completed films has mounted to more than 85 pictures. This is a new high for sustained production in Hollywood. Big reason: on Sept. 1, five of the cinema industry's major studios (Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio) will begin distributing their product according to the terms of the Government's Consent Decree, which they signed last October (TIME...
...headache to studio executives, the boom has created many a new job. Scorching ahead on three shifts a day, Warners reported a 155% increase in craft employes (painters, electricians, etc.). Planning to have two blocks of five pictures in the bank by mid-July, 20th Century-Fox had 52 writers hard at work on 41 scripts...
Celebrated. By the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York: his 20th anniversary as a Bishop; his 50th as a minister; his 75th as a person...