Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your review of Erskine Caldwell's This Very Earth ... it was stated that sales of Mr. Caldwell's books were "above 9,000,000 copies" [TIME, Aug. 30]. This properly represents the sales of one reprint publisher. The number of copies of Mr. Caldwell's books in print, at home and abroad, including not only quarter books but dollar books and 75? books as well, is at present slightly more than 14 million...
...talked mostly about the West, "the greatest place on earth to live." He devoted most of another informal little speech to reminiscing about his father's job on the Southern Pacific, his own early days as a summer roustabout. "I thought I might have been a pretty good railroader," he chuckled, "but my father saw I was a failure and had no choice but to make a lawyer...
Outside the little (pop. 5,230) town of Jacarezinho, 335 miles upcountry from São Paulo, several hundred farmers watched a big tractor rip a stump out of the rich red earth. Said one grizzled farmer to Nelson Rockefeller, who had come all the way from New York for the occasion: "I've seen you do in five minutes what it would take me five weeks to do with my horse." Already Rockefeller's Empresa de Mecanizaçāo Agricola, S.A., (Agricultural Mechanization Co.) had enough orders for pulling stumps and clearing land to keep...
Heaven on Earth (music by Jay Gorney; book & lyrics by Barry Trivers; produced by Monte Proser in association with Ned C. Litwack) is the old-fashioned musical about two young things who cannot get married because they cannot find a place to live. In fact, the young man's bachelor quarters are a treetop in Central Park-the first intimation that Heaven on Earth aims to be as cute as all hell. It gets colossally so when a roguish, broguish cabbie named James Aloysius McCarthy (Peter Lind Hayes) sets up as fairy godfather to the lovers. Slow-paced...
...half earth, on the open curve of a continent...