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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to cost Canadians more not only to eat, but to dress and to build. Ottawa stores predicted that rising leather prices would raise the price of shoes $2 to $4 a pair. A similar prediction in Winnipeg set off a buying spree. In some Vancouver yards, lumber went up $5 to $8 per thousand feet, to complicate the problem of new housing...
...lowly Philadelphia Phillies. Both had been demoted to the minors and then bounced back. Burt's workaday formula is the same as Bucky's. Says Burt: "When a guy does something wrong, that's no time to get on him. That's the time to build...
...ledger is not in the red; at the request of President Shukri Bey Kuwatly of Syria, Bayard Dodge recently founded a new school in Damascus, and he has promised to build a modern agricultural college in Iraq. En route to Syria last week, as first director of the new Damascus College, was an American with a name known with respect in the Near East. The new director: Howard Huntington ("Hunt") Bliss, 45, grandson of A.U.B.'s founder and brother-in-law of Bayard Dodge...
Though Dixon's handful of Protestants had never liked the idea of nuns teaching their children, they kept their peace so long as the church owned the building where classes were held. But two years ago, Dixon's 800 citizens raised $13,000 to build the community a grade school of its own. Protestant parents were dismayed to discover that the county school board had hired a nun as principal and four nuns as teachers. There were crucifixes on the wall, Catholic prayers before & after class. A delegation of Protestants complained to the state board of education...
Curium can be made by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles, or americium with neutrons. Now that it has been isolated, the scientists working under the Atomic Energy Commission (the only ones privileged to play around with plutonium and its relatives) can try to build up an Element...