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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the films that Debrix will use to illustrate his lecture is the current French production "Devil in the Flesh." Tonight's lecture will be open to the public...
...this connection, the current issue involving the use of public funds for the support of parochial education ... is part of a carefully calculated plan to break down the American doctrine of the separation of church and state...
...revived during the wartime oil shortage. At that time Congress appropriated $30 million for large-scale research in synthetic fuel. It seemed a good gamble; geologists estimate that U.S. shale reserves might yield 365 billion barrels of oil, enough to fill U.S. industrial needs for 180 years at the current rate of consumption...
...tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...
...year drew toward its close, a wacky picture book, White Collar Zoo, stood at the head of the non-fiction bestsellers, and a vastly overrated picaresque novel with a panoramic ancient setting, The Egyptian, ruled the current fiction roost. One was a good-natured freak, the other an escape hatch, and neither of them was a suggestive commentary on the year's literary inventory...