Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to limit the danger from air raids. That night the life of the old grey-walled city, last capital of the Mings 300 years ago, third capital of Chiang Kaishek, again got back to a sort of wartime normal. Crowds swarmed down Dujugai, main street of a city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school...
...Main U. S. interest in Bolivia is still tin. The U. S. imports about 45% of the world's tin, has no mines in her own boundaries, a small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely...
...director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again...
...drawing 169,260 visitors at 25? each up to April 15 (the Sally Rand Dnude Ranch drew 228,356). Sharp-eyed Guard Seymour nevertheless found plenty to criticize from the standpoint of the common man, whom he denominated Joe Bloake and furnished with a wife and four children. Main points...
...Taxpayers' Association has in no way objected to this bill; in fact it has voted for the plan all along. Certain members of the Harvard faculty have been active on this issue. But the main pressure has come from Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to go through. Mayor Lyons apparently is blocking the bill because it has, as one of the conditions of the grant, federal control of the project, and the Mayor is used to handing out political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign...