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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last they moved down Emigration Canyon to the Great Salt Lake, to a sagebrush Zion on the River Jordan flowing into the Dead Sea. The day after the first group arrived they diverted a creek for irrigation, and plowed. Under Young's relentless driving a city was laid out, farms established, dams raised, smithies, tanneries, crude flour mills set up. Young knew what the Mormons needed for survival: isolation and a chance to sink their roots. When the Mormons heard the news of the gold strike at Sutter's Mill, he cried: "Gold is for paving streets...
...less than a minute it was all over. Someone shouted: "Stop shooting." When the thin smoke of high velocity shells had cleared, five dead Negro convicts lay sprawled on the sun-drenched ground. Of the 22 others, eight were wounded, three of them fatally. Said a frightened survivor: "They mowed them down like wheat...
Divided Labors. In a room near his office, from which he can look out over the plains of Jordan to the Dead Sea, Judah Magnes has placed two great filing cabinets, one marked "University Affairs," the other "Political Affairs." They are a sign of his divided labors. Still a pacifist and a longtime advocate of a joint Jewish and Arab Palestine, he has been attacked by extremists of both sides. Once his students went out on strike in protest against him; once Arabs set upon a car bearing two of his guests and killed the driver. But he has never...
...Taft-Hartley law will relieve industry of any obligation to bargain with supervisory employees. At week's end, the foremen still on strike meekly voted to go back to work. They sorrowfully admitted that F.A.A., which had existed chiefly by grace of the Ford contract, was about dead...
...thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls of plot typical of Cosmopolitan magazine fiction-which is, in fact, what this novel...