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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Building Materials. In the rebuilding of their homeland, the returning Yugoslavs have much to contribute. In Canada they have learned new skills. They are taking with them machines to employ these skills, have already subscribed $1,119,000 for equipment. Each permanent emigrant can also take out his personal possessions plus cash up to $25,000. For a year abroad, $4,900 cash is allowed...
...Black & White. Neil finds the answer when, for the first time in his life, he visits the local colored section and finds out that Negroes are human beings. This revelation also gives Author Lewis a wonderful chance to employ his most sneering and dramatic satire-through the simple device of ranging the struggling Negroes of Grand Republic on one side of the stage and the "Babbitts" of the white community on the other. Author Lewis' Negroes are not idealized-in fact some of them are shoddy and worthless characters-but most readers are likely to agree with Neil that...
...trips to Wellesley, and red-rimmed eyes that are a consequence of this misunderstanding are many and unnecessary. Unnecessary because the Bureau can quite demonstrably help the undergraduate to run through his average study problems like a hot knife through margarine. This fact is important because many men unknowingly employ hideously inept study methods, but achieve moderately good marks through huge outlays of study time. Such stumblers in the dark, as well as grade-hawks, may find it interesting that the marks of 8 out of 10 men rise after their exposure to Bureau methods, and that reading speeds...
...Government settlement. The Tower Bridge also was opened to traffic again: the Government moved in Royal Navy crews to operate it, and workmen redecorating the Guildhall for a "Welcome Home" dinner for the Royal Family walked out in protest. In Durham, 20 striking enginemen shut down 15 collieries which employ 20,000 miners...
...three murky characters who hound a Greenwich Village habitue back to his Albany home for a practical joke, has a basis in realistic motives and comprehensible feelings. The mounting tension is skilfully underwritten, and the success of the work is dependent on the right refusal of the author to employ any of the tricks of emotional writing...