Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights in Room 5-202 of Detroit's massive General Motors Building burned into the dawn one night last week. In that same room two years ago, the United Auto Workers' fiery Walter Reuther and G.M.'s management had cursed each other, touched off the fuse for a costly 113-day strike...
...organism without a memory. Fifty years ago its five boroughs-Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx-were joined into one big city. But most of its citizens are vaguely surprised at plans for celebrating this golden anniversary-starting with a monster parade up Fifth Avenue next week. They leave this sort of historic memory to Philadelphia, at which they jeer; to Boston, which they pity; Or to Atlanta, a place near Miami, and where the Civil War was fought. New York is hypnotized by the present-which, after all, is equipped with television and a big bull market...
...little chance to relax. Next to the President of the U.S., he has the most difficult and trying political job in the land. Three months ago he almost collapsed with nervous exhaustion, the occupational ailment of the New York executive. He spent eight days in Bellevue Hospital, began taking a relaxing drink of Scotch before dinner, went off to California for a rest. But he came hurrying back after four weeks to ward off a strike which threatened to tie up the bus lines. "There's no use kidding," he says. "You can't take it easy...
...Oslo, British Guest Mark Hewitson, M.P. for Hull, recalled some of the bonds between Norway and Britain. "As Ah look around your coontry," said Yorkshireman Hewitson",'"Ah see a whole lot o' things that recall the visits which your Viking ancestors made to ma coontry many centuries ago. And y' know a lot o' your lads -refugees like-came over to us during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole lot o' your bluid...
Home to Mother. Dr. Wong is not physically impressive: he is under 5 ft. and weighs 90-odd pounds, and his homely face is scarred from an auto smashup 14 years ago. He has no political following: though a member of the Kuomintang, he is generally considered an independent. Most of his life has been passed in the relative obscurity of the Geological Institute and on university teaching staffs. He entered government service in 1935 at Chiang Kai-shek's repeated requests, rose rapidly to ministerial rank. Before becoming Premier his job was that of Minister of Economic Affairs...