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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While all Cambridge peeled off clothing and waited for the promised thunder-showers yesterday evening, the U. S. Weather Bureau was forecasting for today the first break in the sweltering heat wave which has held the Boston area in its grip since Saturday...
More Support. Kansas' Clyde Martin Reed, sponsor of the bill, deprecated such notions. The bill's opponents had proceeded, "either wilfully or ignorantly, upon an erroneous basis. . . . Every experienced traffic man knows that a majority of freight rate changes, whether made by a bureau or in some other method or manner, are decreases. The shippers . . . have universally come 'to the support of this bill...
Housing Cheer. The number of new homes started during April showed a substantial increase over any of the first three months of the year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced. The total was 68,700 permanent housing units; that was 1,700 above April 1946, almost 18% above last March. The preliminary estimate for May: 69,000 units...
From three vital way stations, three TIME-correspondents last week sent in reports. Emmet Hughes, TIME'S Rome bureau chief, who has spent four years in Spain, recently returned to Franco territory and found, contrary to wishful predictions, that the Franco regime seemed fatter and more secure than ever. In Poland, John Scott (TIME'S Berlin bureau chief) found a shaky but surprisingly energetic prosperity. From China, TIME'S Nanking Correspondent Frederick Gruin told no story of prosperity, but one of lean and bitter struggle and inevitable retribution. The reports...
...state-owned presses stay on schedule, 1947 will be the biggest year in Russian publishing history: 23,000 titles, totaling 430,000,000 copies, in the Soviet Union's 100-odd languages and dialects. Every book is fit for Russian eyes and minds: Glavlit, the Government bureau in charge of such things, had seen to that by hand-picking each title...