Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour work days last week, the mayor of Los Angeles trudged up the 135 steps to his house on a hill high above the Hollywood Bowl. Below him was one of the great man-made sights in America: the lights of Los Angeles, stretching as far as the eye could reach. Fletcher Bowron's eyes gave the familiar scene an instant's glance. Inside his old Spanish-style house, his eyes moistened as he opened a red leather book and read a sheaf of letters in his praise. He had had an unusual day. It was his tenth...
...miners are poor individually, collectively they are rich. Last week their rich union, the United Mine Workers of America, announced that a research project financed by its welfare fund had at last done something for victims of silicosis. The work was carried out by a team from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, led by Dr. Burgess L. Gordon. The key discovery-how to get healing drugs into silicotic lungs-was made by Dr. Hurley L. Motley...
...Washington press corps, and she covered Germany like a rough-riding Valkyrie. She descended on Berlin via the airlift, sitting on bags of coal. She slept in Hitler's airraid bunker, interviewed General Clay, went shopping with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least ten years older than I am." All this she reported in her homy, wish...
Like a man hopefully shooting arrows into the empty air, the wartime "Voice of America" beamed 2,500 broadcasts a week into the heart of Europe and Asia. Nobody knew, or could prove, whether it did any good or not. But the idea was to encourage resistance forces and combat Axis propaganda. When the war ended, the "Voice" died to a whisper. It was cut down by a budget-minded Congress to a scanty $8,000,000 a year (less than the U.S. spent last year on its wildlife care), and most of its overseas programs were farmed...
...loves them for themselves. With downright affection, he recalls attractive insects he has known. There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep or fly winningly through his memories...