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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pend Oreille, as at many of the most-fished U.S. lakes and streams, man has improved upon nature. Some years ago, local sportsmen bought 100,000 fish eggs from Kootenay Lake in British Columbia to plant in the lake. The first batch died and the townspeople of Sandpoint, Idaho were skeptical. But in 1941 the sportsmen tried another 100,000; these hatched successfully, were planted in the lake as fingerlings. Pend Oreille's deep water and an abundance of blueback salmon to feed on seemed to be just what the Kamloops (local name for the over-sized rainbow trout...
Notably absent from the celebration was rangy Frederic B. Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft. Modest Fred Rentschler, who did not want to steal any glory from Chance Vought's general manager, Rex Beisel, was on his farm, "Renbrook," in West Hartford. As usual, he had taken home a batch of work. Rentschler's homework has paid United some handsome dividends...
Buddy King was only one of thousands who were getting their diplomas while their children watched. For the Class of '47 was the first big batch of veteran graduates. These were the boys who had been jerked from college years ago, had grown to manhood while they fought a war. Many of them were married. They had been crammed in crowded Quonset huts, auto trailers and jerry-built houses. Government allowances had scarcely covered the expenses of their growing families. For many, college had been a somewhat grim experience which they would long remember, but not with nostalgia...
Postcards & Turtledoves. As the 278-year-old process* ended in the Holy City last week, Roman citizens had a field day with the first batch of pilgrims they had seen in years. One old Swiss woman with a strange silver headdress covering her huge bun of white hair got a 100-lira note from a moneychanger in exchange for her 100-Swiss-franc note (worth more than 20,000 lire). Postcard peddlers got rich...
...Summing up a batch of recent studies comparing U.S. women of today with those of 50 years ago, the New York Times found that women now are taller and thinner, live longer but get grey earlier, have bigger feet, eat less but do more heavy drinking, are less prudish, less weepy and less moral, marry earlier, cook better meals but make poorer mothers, are much less satisfied "with their lot as women." Independently, Dr. Marynia F. Farnham, Manhattan psychiatrist and coauthor of Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, proclaimed that U.S. women are the unhappiest in the world...