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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buenos Aires' opera house, the Teatro Colon, is one of the two or three best in the world. Bigger and grander than Manhattan's aged and drab Metropolitan, it has a much longer season: from May through October. This year the Colon's director, Floro Meliton Ugarte, signed Arturo Toscanini (see above} for six concerts with the opera orchestra. Meantime...
...City reported that marriage licenses were going boom. In the first half of 1941 the city issued 38,918 permits to marry-10,015 more than in the first half of 1940. If the boom zooms, 1941 will be New York City's most nuptial year in history, bigger even than 1917, which turned in 76,149 legal weddings...
What Chances? Thus, with every detail worked out, even to the designation of the trees behind which broadcasters should crouch, the veteran German Army took on its hugest job. Though bigger potential armies (10,000,000 Russians, 9,000,000 Germans) had never fought on a bigger potential front, the weathered Germans began fighting Russia just as they had opened against all the other opponents, with apparent calm, with obvious savvy...
...Brasher (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938), last week turned its words into deeds. At the suggestion of the Waterbury Republican's and American's William J. Pope, the State Legislature passed an appropriation of $74,290 to buy Brasher's collection of North American bird portraits-bigger, if not better than that of the late, great John James Fougere Audubon. Connecticut had, as yet, no museum to put them in, couldn't see its way to building one until the present munitions boom was over. Casting about for likely storage space, the State last week had received...
...tonnage. Ben Fairless was put in charge of a committee of seven steelmen to figure this out, report back to 0PM this week. Cheapest, fastest and likeliest method: to add to existing mills, rather than build new ones. Two mills expected to grow much bigger are Bethlehem's 3,200,000-ton Sparrows Point mill near Baltimore and U.S. Steel's Columbia subsidiary in California, both on tidewater. Gano Dunn had figured week before that a 10,000,000-ton "horizontal" expansion would cost $1,250,000,000 and probably require more labor than is available. But this...