Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual salary in the civil service division is now $10,330, and that celling if often broken for "specialized jobs," B. B. McCoy, director of the Office of Domestic Commerce, told the audience that jammed Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
Underground. Though it has changed ownership only once since 1800, the Gazette (circ. 9,200) has had eight different names and has suffered more violent changes. Gazette Founder Samuel Snowden and son Edgar pursued a, conservative editorial way until the Civil War. When Federal occupation troops arrested an Alexandria minister in church for refusing to pray for Abraham Lincoln, the Gazette cried out at the indignity. Angry Unionists burned the offices down, and the paper had to publish underground. When it finally made peace with the Unionists and emerged, the Gazette was still unreconstructed...
...their markets by 1) removing the legal restraints from margarine (which uses cottonseed oil); 2) pushing the sale of cotton bags for feed by using prints convertible to dresses (TIME, Jan. 31); and 3) getting ECA to step up 1949 exports (which would otherwise be the lowest since the Civil War). The cotton growers, who use about 10% of all fertilizer, also looked at the big use of paper bags by that industry, estimated that judicious pressure there alone could step up cotton consumption from 16,000 to 275,000 bales a year...
South of St. Louis (Warner) actually takes place just north of the Rio Grande. A Technicolored western, masquerading in fits & starts as a chunk of Civil War history, it has a doubleheader love story and a hydra-headed plot...
Asia's New Voice (MARCH OF TIME) is a moving window opening on one of the great upheavals of modern history. It takes a quick look at the sweep of events in India since the war: the withdrawal of the British, the vast subcontinental explosion of violence and civil war, the locust-like migrations of terrified millions, and, like the crack of a pistol in a crowded room, the assassination of Gandhi...