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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pork & Perfume. Chiang Ching-kuo had little sympathy for the jailed moneymen. After graduating from the Moscow Military Academy in 1930, he went to the Soviet Trans-Caucasus for practical engineering work. Speaking of this period he once said: "I had numberless hard days. I did the lowest sort of work. I have spent a night in a rubbish barrel ... I survived, thanks to father's teaching: 'Man's spirit is omnipotent-not money...
...announced that the average income per person in the U.S. last year was $1,323-up $110 from 1946. Highest average among the 20 states which exceeded the national figure was Nevada's $1,842. New York was second with $1,781. Mississippi had the nation's lowest average...
...prewar German shipping tycoon, he had wedged his way into the Atlantic traffic with simple, serviceable ships, the lowest tourist rates of any line, and an inexpensive elevator system for carrying automobiles uncrated. A Jew, the Nazis jailed him and confiscated his ships. Released, he went to the U.S., built up a new Bernstein line that ran from New York to Antwerp and the Dutch ports. His ships were sunk during the war. Now, at 58, he is at it again...
...Except the six-cylinder business coupé, which was reduced $5 to bring it $2 below Chevrolet's comparable model, thereby giving Ford the chance to crow that it had the lowest-priced car put out by the "Big Three...
Infantile paralysis, 1948, last week kept up its bullying, unpredictable course: ¶There was a dip in new cases in North Carolina, hardest hit of all states. The board of health reported the lowest one-day polio incidence in two weeks, 27 cases. The epidemic, with more than 1,000 victims, might be waning. ¶The news from California was worse. Polio was officially labeled "epidemic" in Los Angeles County, where there had been 427 cases since the beginning of July. Total for the state: 803. ¶News from the country as a whole stayed bad: 1948 might...