Word: howes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week New York University's School of Education reported that 26 graduate students were taking the nation's first collegiate course in writing comic books. Reason for the course: since most U.S. schoolchildren (and most adults) read comics, N.Y.U. had begun to think that U.S. educators better...
The AEC does not estimate how much greater damage would be caused by the vastly more powerful bombs developed since those were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it hints that an enemy might prefer to explode its bombs underwater to spray Washington with radioactive water. A spray of far...
In the high-ceilinged Senate caucus room, a Senate-House subcommittee headed by Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas last week tackled three enormous questions: What is the fiscal policy of the U.S.? How can the U.S. manage its money better? And why will there be an estimated $5.5 billion deficit...
The railroads, which are still making money on freight, know how to make money on passengers too, and have proved it on their main-line trains. They know that it is the uneconomical branch lines which eat up the profits. Yet state regulatory bodies, often for sentimental reasons, balk at...
On an impulse, Silvestro buys a ticket to his mother's village in Sicily. When he gets there, his mother is roasting a fish and the smell releases a lot of memories: how his mother's face had once been "young and awe-inspiring"; how, in poverty, they...