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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell the world. Throughout Brazil, at dozens of picnics and other celebrations, the comrades sang such ideological lyrics as "Take off your shirt, Joe, the time of Fascism has passed."* They also saluted the past year's items of progress: 1) emergence as the Hemisphere's largest Communist Party (120,000 militant members); 2) collection of $600,000 for bigger Party newspapers; 3) pro-labor provisions in Brazil's new Constitution; 4) U.S. withdrawal from outposts on the Brazilian "hump," which the Party naively claimed had been due to its "return the bases" campaign...
Anticipation. Best of all, the Dominion's markets for 1947 seemed likely to be as good as in 1946. Her 110 pulp and paper mills, the Dominion's largest industry, had turned out nearly 7,000,000 tons of paper products worth $700,000,000-and customers all over the world were clamoring for still higher production. Despite a lack of sheet steel (a shortage caused by U.S. and Canadian steel strikes), auto plants managed to build 178,000 cars and trucks, 3% above the average prewar production. And the pile of domestic and foreign orders was higher...
...Bureau of Social Research sent a formidable questionnaire. The result, published this week in book form and titled The Layman Looks at the Minister (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $1.50), makes 160 pages of required reading for theological students. Laymen will find it an absorbing composite of the country's largest Protestant church body...
Performing at the Garden for the first time since the war curtailed their activities, the veterans of the popular half-time gridiron displays will make up one of the largest aggregations of musicians ever heard by a Garden audience...
Four government checks were taken from Leverett House, probably the largest haul, although some thefts may still be unreported. One House member expressed surprise that Leverett's all metal mailboxes seemed more attractive to crackers than Winthrop's or Dunster's glass protected containers...