Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Commerce announced that there would be more than 100 special "weeks" in 1948, among them National Laugh Week (to help put a smile on the map of America), Save Your Vision Week, Large Size Week (drug products...
...Flute (TIME, March 17). Her story of a Montreal slum showed unmistakable U.S. influences. Wrote Garneau, in the 1946 literary supplement of Montreal's Le Canada: "We cannot escape the zone of influence of a mighty literary power. If it is not France it will be America." French Canadian authors, said he, should turn to France. Besides, "[Americans] do not like literature...
...wispy British historiographer whose magnum opus, A Study of History, is six volumes long already, arrived in the U.S. to work on the final three volumes. Why did he think his work (in condensed form) had become a U.S. bestseller? "It's very funny," he admitted. "Maybe because . . . America was entering the main stream of history and Americans wanted to know more about...
...Henry Knox Sherrill (Sun. 11:30 a.m., Mutual). The Presiding Protestant Episcopal Bishop in America, in an appeal for European relief...
...persuading the City Council to permit the use of lightweight vermiculite instead of concrete to sheathe the steel girders against fire. This saved so much weight that they were able to use lighter girders, eliminated 1,200 tons of steel. Another big office-building job, Prudential Insurance Co. of America's $8,500,000 building, will be the lightest building (per square foot) in Los Angeles...