Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. The New Yorker's Lewis Mumford is what Moses scornfully calls "an Ivory Tower" planner, a devoted disciple of Scotland's famed planner, Sir Patrick Geddes, and a learned critic who for years has been examining Manhattan's skyline with a dour eye. A fortnight ago, the two were hooting at each other in the columns of the New Yorker like motorists in a traffic...
...With only the flimsiest pretense of democratic procedure, the Communists set up a "people's government" of Berlin. They repudiated the anti-Communist City Assembly, legally elected two years ago, and claimed authority over the whole city, although well aware that they would exercise it in the Soviet sector alone...
...Meulen pointed to a pile of cotton bales -most of them from New Orleans and Galveston. There were 350 of them, each with the red, white & blue shield of the U.S. and the inscription: "For European Recovery." "This isn't much," Van der Meulen said, "but six months ago we could have had a ball in here-though not a very cheerful...
...German V-2 launching platform just back of town. With the mills hardly running at all, the town had been too poor to do much about repairs. Nijverdal could remedy that now. Burgomaster Witschey hoped for renovation of the down-at-heel town hall, too: a couple of months ago, mice nibbled through his desk drawer and ate up his old budget report. Witschey could laugh about it; the 1949 budget is a lot brighter...
...hundred years ago, Fernandez was murdered...