Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bessler textile factory in Gera, managed by 46-year-old Willi Huhne, who held the same job through the Nazi era, was turning out from 2.4 to 2.6 million yards of cloth as against 3 million yards in prewar years. Sadly Huhne watched a machine turning out cloth with Stalin's picture on it, said he still favored private enterprise...
...poor in Italy have rations equivalent to the diet enjoyed in 1937 at the peak of Mussolini's prosperity era. . . . [Italy] is a veritable land of plenty, while in all three countries black-market restaurants supplied steaks, eggs, fruits and other delicacies at prices equivalent to those of restaurants in New York...
This week the era of the Wisconsin Idea came to an end. Delegates representing the last of the Progressives met in a frame hall at Portage, Wis., to disband the party, return to the G.O.P. Young Bob was facing another election-and he could win only as a Republican. There were still men who wanted to go defiantly on. Said Scandinavian-born Farmer Ole Lund: "When we discard a piece of machinery on the farm we think twice before we hitch on to it again." But there was no choice. The Democrats could offer no hope of victory. Quietly...
Astounding Aquarius. The biggest astrological news was that the world was moving out of the brawling, nationalistic age of Pisces (the fish) and into the new, 2,156-year-cycle of Aquarius (the water-bearer). That meant a new era of "world brotherhood, flight and ether." ("We'll be weekending on the planets.") Said one astrologer: "It is here ... the developments will astound the world." Said another: "We are going to have rule by the masses...
...Churchill," said the London Daily Worker last week, "has returned to his anti-Communist vomit." What Churchill had returned to was his Munich-era assertion that appeasement will not buy peace. The question had a new urgency in March of 1946, as spring girdled the earth with the possibility of military action and the probability of fresh diplomatic crises...