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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into last week's chorus of heady news from Europe and hopeful words from San Francisco came a thin, somber note from U.S. public opinion. It came from a cross-section of adult civilians buttonholed by the University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center. The poll question: do you expect the U.S. to get in another war within the next 25 years...
...summer, the catch drops off when adult fish change their diet from elusive one-year-olds to easy-to-catch newborns. (Most game fish are cannibals.) With full bellies and plenty more where that came from, they are not much interested in hunting around for plugs, spoons and spinners...
...Total Lend-Lease shipments of cigarets in 1944 were equivalent to one cigaret a week for each adult U.S. civilian; for every cigaret exported under Lend-Lease, 26 were sent to U.S. forces overseas, 55 were smoked at home. Why U.S. soldiers did not get theirs in the quantity set forth in the report was a question Mr. Crowley did not attempt to meet: soldiers in France and England would have to ask the Army Service Forces and the black marketeers in France for the answer...
...University of Omaha's wide-ranging services even include the schooling of church ushers. This year 40 adult students took the Omaha ushering course, learning their art from practical experts. At their commencement last week, the principal speaker was earnest, efficient A. & P. Sales Manager J. S. Handy. Every Sunday as head usher at Des Moines' Westminster Presbyterian Church, he "competes with the Devil" of congregational boredom...
Bennington College's President Lewis Webster Jones echoed, "In 1945-46 higher education will face the greatest crisis and greatest opportunity in the nation's history. . . . All indications are that the returning veterans will be most eager to . . . work hard on a serious adult curriculum...