Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just a dry run, night after night." Some journalists have been overtaken by a creeping lethargy: it is hard to hustle for scoops when editions will sell out without them. "I keep feeling guilty," said a circulation manager. "Instead of talking people into buying more papers, I'm talking them into taking fewer. It isn't a proper way to do business...
...greater threat-an invasion of the dread foot & mouth disease.* The worst outbreak (1914-16) forced the U.S. to slaughter and burn or bury (in quicklime) 175,000 U.S. animals before it was licked. The next time the battle may not be won-even at such cost. Said Dr. M. R. Clarkson, Department of Agriculture scientist: "If the disease ever gets across the Rio Grande, it would cost the U.S. at least $1 billion a year. It will affect all parts of the livestock industry, and it would be almost impossible to check...
...battle maps, Kleberg has traced the progress of the disease northward. At week's end, the epidemic was only 300 miles away from his southernmost fences. Cried Bob Kleberg: "This thing has to be stopped even if it is necessary to spend $1 billion in Mexico. I'm in favor of replacing every slaughtered work animal with a free mule or ox, and sending Mexicans the cattle to restock their ranges. It would be cheap at the price...
When the Mountain Fell, a tale of utter simplicity and symbolic depth by the late Swiss Novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, reminded some readers and writers of the value of perfected style. So did The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster, England's dean of novelists...
Only readers whose interests were professional or personal could keep up with the year's output on Germany and the Nazis. Most important, as a historical document, was The Nuremberg Case as it was presented by U.S. Chief of Counsel Robert Jackson. Throughout the trial Captain G. M. Gilbert, a U.S. psychologist, had access to the prisoners 24 hours a day. Nuremberg Diary, written from his daily notes, was the best composite picture of Göring & Co. Most persuasive of the speculations about Hitler was H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler, a skillful...