Word: junes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone from the Northwest was the former Nationalist hope and Moslem warlord, Governor Ma Pufang of Chinghai (TIME, June 6). Burly, black-bearded Ma had been driven by superior Communist force from his capital Sining. A dispirited fugitive, he rested in a Hong Kong flat last week. But, unlike Fu and Tung, Ma was not ready to bow to Moscow. Last week he announced that he would shortly leave-by airplane on a long pilgrimage to Mecca...
...over Italy, schemes were being made to cash in on the first Holy Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
...Negroes were killed after race rioting in Columbia's Mink Slide district (TIME, March 11, 1946). Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill was shot to death by Georgia lynchers (TIME, June...
After the President's announcement last week of the U.S.S.R.'s progress in making an atomic bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nobel-Prizewinner Harold C. Urey spoke for U.S. scientists. Said he: "We were never so sorry in our lives that we were so right." Since June 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had shown on its cover two clock-hands pointing to 11:52. Individual scientists, groups of scientists and scientific associations have solemnly warned, time & again, that the clock would soon strike twelve...
...Government finished the first quarter of the new fiscal year today about $1,400,000,000 in the red--and with prospects strong for going deeper into the hole. Guesses on the budget deficit by the end of fiscal 1950 next June 30 ranged from $3,000,000,000 by an administration expert to $7,000,000,000 by Senator Harry Byrd (D.Va...