Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lights Out! In Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. C. L. Eben, conked by a falling street lamp, collected $40 for damages to her umbrella, hat and permanent wave...
...Exiled Spanish Republicans, sensing opportunity, composed many of their differences and set up a government in Mexico City under suave, sophisticated Diego Martinez Barrio as President and mild-mannered José Girál y Pereira as Premier. The new government's political complexion was a moderate pink, calculated to please Britain...
...present was dark enough for the defeated. U.S. bombing, of all types, lamented Radio Tokyo, had destroyed 44 cities, killed 260,000, injured 412,000, left 9,200,000 homeless. Tokyo alone had lost 63% of its population (dead and evacuated), 70% of its homes. When Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger led his Eighth Army in to occupy the Tokyo area, he would find it at least as desolate as any city in Europe...
...AMERICAN LANGUAGE: SUPPLEMENT I-H. L. Mencken-Knopf...
When 200 A.F. of L. newspaper carriers went on strike last week, 816,048 St. Louisians went without their local newspapers. Readers of the Post-Dispatch, the Globe-Democrat and the Star-Times could get their surrender news by radio, from out-of-town papers, or do without...