Word: 48th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists blew their horns and the notes were echoed from the provinces. The Party had accomplishments to report and it seized an occasion-the 48th birthday of its magnetic leader, Luis Carlos Prestes-to tell the world. Throughout Brazil, at dozens of picnics and other celebrations, the comrades sang such ideological lyrics as "Take off your shirt, Joe, the time of Fascism has passed."* They also saluted the past year's items of progress: 1) emergence as the Hemisphere's largest Communist Party (120,000 militant members); 2) collection of $600,000 for bigger Party newspapers...
...Judas Sheep. There had been little enough progress in the area where U.N. would build: between 42nd and 48th Streets, from First Avenue to the river (see map). In the old slaughterhouse area livestock is still floated in by barge from New Jersey, is still led to the killing sheds by a cynical Judas sheep. On a vacant lot near the Consolidated laundry, Italian workmen still bowl through the intricacies of bocce every day the weather permits. Sidewalks are littered with old refuse, crumbling walls chalked with ancient obscenities...
Last week the offer paid off handsomely. To the city desk came an excited phone call: "A plane is about to crash at 48th Street and Eighth Avenue...
Relative to the article "God's Corner Lot" [TIME, March 4], why not change the location of the church as suggested [from Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at 48th to the East Seventies], spend $1,000,000 of the profit for a new edifice, and $2,000,000 to feed and clothe Europe's starving, freezing children...
...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...