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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history. With few exceptions, everyone who wanted a job had one. Labor got a third round of wage increases, and strikes were at a postwar low. Prices inched upward and everyone worried, complained, and talked about them. But the U.S. citizen was earning more actual buying power than ever before. He also managed to save some money (personal savings were up $4.9 billion over 1947). The year's crop of babies pushed the population to 147,280,000-up 15,500,000 since...
...Load. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman, the man who never wanted to be President, confided to reporters: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night." In 1948, the load was bigger. But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him. He had the air of a man who felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million...
...slipped or fainted, and had fallen. In Scarsdale, his widow, Mrs. Helen Boyd Duggan, a onetime advertising executive, angrily told newsmen: "I deny that my husband had anything to do with Whittaker Chambers or . . . with spying. It's the biggest lot of hooey I ever heard. It just isn't so-any part...
Praise. Was the applause only for Flagstad's voice? (The reviews next day were unanimous: "Flagstad Returns, Greater Than Ever." The Herald Tribune called her "incomparably the most distinguished of living singers." The Times spoke of "eloquence and splendor unequaled in this writer's experience.") Or was the cheering also for Kirsten Flagstad the woman-a way of saying that the past was over, that her political sins were forgiven...
...novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...