Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, the photograph very nearly failed to reach TIME'S Costa Rican readers. The censors held all copies of the April 5 issue at San Jose's airport and they were released only after TIME Inc.'s Central American correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, had protested successfully to the Government. Thereafter hundreds of reproductions of the picture and caption began to appear. They are still selling throughout Costa Rica for about 22? apiece. For many Costa Ricans, who framed the picture and hung it in their homes, it was the first time they had seen a photograph of Figueres...
...Pioneers. Two and a half years ago, when husky, high-powered Bernardo Sayao Carvalho Araujo (TIME, April 7, 1947) was opening up the government's Colonia Agricola Nacional just west of Anapolis he made Dr. Fanstone the colony's chief medical officer. The growing colony meant a fresh load for the hospital, but Dr. Jim jammed in more beds, took care of all who came. Last week, as he watched workmen finish a new wing for his hospital, he knew that it would still not be big enough for the need...
Walter P. Reuther's physician an nounced that the U.A.W. chief, whose arm was nearly blasted off last April,* had a very good chance of regaining a "nearly 100% perfect arm." Bouquets In London, Queen Mary - in powder blue as usual - got fan mail, gun salutes, the cheers of crowds, a little cake with icing, and a toast from her family and friends at lunch, on her 81st birthday...
...reporting and writing soon won him an offer from North American Newspaper Alliance to do a column. His four-year partnership with Robert Kintner, capped by their American White Paper (TIME, April 29, 1940), ended with the war. In the course of a hectic service career Joe served under Chennault, became a young China hand, was interned by the Japanese at Hong Kong. There he made the most of the six months he waited for repatriation by learning to read the Analects of Confucius in the original...
...April, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 90,000 new houses were started, 20,500 more than in the same month last year. Civilian employment, said BLS, is also headed for a new peacetime high of 62,000,000 jobs by September. Industrial production, which had dropped in April for the second consecutive month because of the coal strike, was on the rise again. After the disappointing Easter season, department store sales, reported the Federal Reserve Board, were "at exceptionally high levels" in April and the first half...