Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses are reporting vacancies for the 20 extra men allotted to each at a great rate," he continued. Watson praised the cooperation of both University officials and students, which he said greatly speeded the exodus from the gym floor...
...newsmen who covered it, the climax of the sorrowful story of Exodus 1947 was hard going. No story from Germany since the Nürnberg trials had drawn so much manpower: 135 correspondents from a dozen countries converged on Hamburg as three ships from southern France, and their cargo of 4,400 Jews (TIME, Sept. 15), neared port. It was the kind of story that is toughest for reporters who try to be careful, dispassionate observers. Inevitably, each brought his prejudices, emotions and loyalties along, and the press coverage showed...
Through the misty dawn, they could see the land they had fled in horror-Germany. Two months ago, they had left the Continent aboard a leaky old tub called Exodus '47, bound for Palestine (TIME, July 28 et seq.). Now they returned, aboard the Ocean Vigour and two other British transports, bound for German D.P. camps where the British had finally decided to take them. At 6:20, a loudspeaker asked the passengers to go ashore. On the battered Hamburg pier, the cordons of British troops and German police tensed...
...miles on either side of the border, as farmers ran away or hid. In Lahore only one or two banks stayed open because the clerks had gone back to Madras. Throughout Pakistan there was little commercial activity. Hindu and Sikh merchants, engineers and mechanics had joined in the general exodus...
...Exodus from Plenty. The exodus did not mean that the field was running dry -far from it. West Edmond has yielded only some 60,000,000 of its estimated 600,000,000 barrels of oil. But at a time when the nation is fast using up its known oil reserves, West Edmond is flagrantly wasting its supply. To save the greatest possible amount of what remains, Oklahoma's oil-regulating Corporation Commission ordered "unitization" of the field, i.e., operating it as if it were a single lease. This was the most drastic step yet taken by any state...