Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After All I Have Done!" Then came the Communist war-criminal broadcast-a sweeping condemnation of the entire Nationalist leadership (TIME, Jan. 3). Angrily the Gimo cried: "After all I have done for China, to be called a criminal! How can we talk with such people?" Vice President Li's name was also on the Red blacklist, but Li took a less personal view of China's crisis; he was still willing to negotiate. Other Kuomintang leaders stood with Chiang. The newspaper Ta Rang Pao railed against "peace politicians who let themselves be mouthpieces for Stalin" and "peace...
Paintings of splintered ships, overturned buggies, dying patients, collapsing floors and falling chandeliers line the walls of many a South-of-France chapel. In each picture the Virgin Mary or a patron saint also appears, serene and smiling above the disaster. Done in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, the paintings are "ex-votos" (thank offerings) by parishioners who were grateful for narrow escapes from death. No one knows who painted most of them; the donor-not the artist-usually got his name in the corner...
...orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down on a target in either of these ways by giving it a powerful push from its nuclear rocket motor. But unless the operation were done with wondrous precision, the bomb could as well fall on Moscow, Idaho, as on Moscow, Russia...
...gross national product-the value of everything made or grown and all work done-rose to $253 billion, 10% above 1947's Himalayan peak. U.S. builders started 1,250,000 houses, 45% more than in any other year. Automakers, working at high speed, brought out a glittering parade of radically changed postwar models-all square, squat and as alike in appearance as cans in a crate. Out rolled more than 5,200,000 cars and trucks, about 8% more than 1947. The textile industry spun out 13,621 billion yards of cloth, enough to reach 311 times around...
...were an estimated $21 billion, compared to $17.4 billion the year before. (Industry's slice of the national pie was still slightly smaller than its record in 1929.) Though some of this profit was fictitious, i.e., a profit on inventory rather than actual sales, many an industry had done so well that even a drop in profits next year would leave it well off. As one businessman put it: "Our earnings have been superduper. From now on they'll be merely super...