Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pole with figures of fish or birds. Dr. Ekholm showed the Americanists carved sticks (miniature totem poles) from both Sumatra and British Columbia and challenged them to tell him which came from where. They confessed that the designs were so similar that they could only guess whether Asiatic or American Indians made them...
Held under the auspices of Episcopalianism's conservative American Church Union, the ceremony highlighted the first of nine eucharistic congresses being held this week throughout the U.S. (The oth ers: in Cleveland, Evanston, 111., Fond du Lac, Wis., Milwaukee, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.) In the U.S. for the eucharistic congresses were five of Britain's top divines the Primus of Scotland, Ireland's Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, and the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Bath & Wells. At St. John's Solemn Eucharist of Thanks giving last week there were 19 other Epis...
...investors reluctant to send their money abroad? In Manhattan, Andre Istel, a French banker and onetime delegate to the Bretton Woods monetary conference, looked no farther than the U.S. stock market to find one answer. Said he: "The shares of more than 100 American ... corporations of good standing and high yield are selling on the Stock Exchange at prices lower than the per share values of the working capital of these corporations. In other words, the purchaser of stock of these corporations acquires at no cost [his share of] their fixed assets, equipment, good will and technical ability...
...single bomber. When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley. Determined not to quit under fire, Arnold passed up the job as president and general manager of Pan American Airways...
...Diamond, National Medical Director of the American Red Cross Blood Program, is an authority on blood groups, the physiology of the new born and hematology in infants. He is also Chief of the Hematology Division of the Children's Hospital and Visiting Physician of the Infant's Hospital...