Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shade, and none had lost more than 90,000 in the first half of 1948. It was the ups & downs of newsstand sales that had hit the Ladies' Home Journal: its average sale for the six-month period was above its base of 4,500,000, but the April, May and June issues had fallen below it. So now the base was being lowered to a more conservative...
...atomic energy. Chalk in hand, Oppie lectured to the nonscientific members for ten days on atomic energy, patiently repeating the lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only authentic genius I know...
...thousand dollars will be awarded to the composer of the best quartet submitted before April 1, trustees of the Paderewski Fund for the Encouragement of American Composers announced recently. According to the conditions of the contest the instrumentation is limited to piano and strings, and each piece must take up at least twenty minutes of playing time...
...think that the $275 million which Congress had appropriated for the purpose, to last until April 2, was going to be enough. Lapham thought it was unrealistic to suppose that the U.S. could pull China out of her economic hole with a one-year program. Unless Congress was prepared to hand out many more millions, under firm U.S. controls, China's economic future...
Frenchmen's Progress. France had progress to report in motorcar building. Production had already caught up with the prewar levels (in April and June it shot up to 106% of the prewar rate, fell below it in July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped...