Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma exported about 3,000,000 tons of rice before the war. This year's exports will be less than 1,000,000. Next year the government hopes to have 730,000 tons for export, but many believe the figure will be lower. This means that millions will go hungry in other parts of Asia, and that Burma will be without its major source of income for the imports it needs. "Burma," said National Bank head U San Lin, "may be bankrupt next year...
...Daily Mail dusted off a costume quote: "The country should say to [the government] as Cromwell said to the Long Parliament: 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, Go!'" The Times: "Mr. Attlee has to ask himself whether the resolve to remain in office can now be upheld. It is scarcely conceivable that the galloping consumption of the nation's wealth and strength can be more than momentarily checked by the government's proposals." The Nottingham Journal: "Mr. Attlee scatters a handful of grit...
...seven-foot marble statue of Mormon Brigham Young lay crated in Washington awaiting a decision on just where it would be set up in the Capitol's "Hall of Fame." Sculptor Mahonri M. Young, a grandson* of the Mormon leader, wanted it to go in a small alcove just off the main rotunda. Utah sponsors wanted it in the rotunda. But, objected the sculptor, the only spot available there is impossible: the statue would be right off the entrance to the ladies' rest room...
...with Halloween. It was the specter "of another entire student body for every college and university." According to McGrath's figures, about 78% of the nation's fifth-grade students who are mentally qualified for college never get there. The result is that millions of U.S. citizens "go through life functioning below the level of their potential." His proposal: an annual $300 million federal aid program for college scholarships...
Kneeling Worshipers. In Helsinki, 7,500 devotees crowded a hall built for 3,600, cheered the old New Orleans standbys that Louis played for them. In Copenhagen, the director of the State Symphony Orchestra dismissed afternoon rehearsal so that his musicians could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum...