Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bodin answered in a sizzling pamphlet showing that in fact prices were going up & up, and God only knew where they would end. After that, he digressed from economics (publishing a treatise on witchcraft called the Demonomania of Sorcerers), and went on to six volumes of political theory, his major work, in which he set down the notion that the state is supreme and inviolable as a matter of natural right. That right, he said, springs from the people's need for a strong protecting hand in troubled times...
...over an hour one night last week, U.S. Major General Arthur Harper, General Van Fleet's deputy, watched from a Kastoria window as the rebels lobbed sixty 75-mm. shells into the town. A direct hit through the window of a nearby hospital killed two soldiers and two nurses. The next day Americans asked why the city's lights had not been turned off during the shelling. The answer was fear of looting by neighbors. The Greek army's artillery did not answer the guerrillas until half an hour after the shelling had ended...
Madras has made prohibition a major crusade. There is a minister for prohibition in the provincial cabinet. A prohibition-enforcement staff college has recently been started, with a student body of 366 inspectors...
Smart Promoter Veeck livened things up with fireworks, vaudeville acts, strolling minstrels, a playground for kids. This season, Cleveland set a new major-league attendance record: 2,260,627. And as fast as the money rolled in, Veeck peeled it out. His best buy: Satchel Paige, the ancient Negro pitching marvel...
This week the Air Force released a rather sketchy description of a sort of hybrid of the old & new: Pratt & Whitney's Wasp Major-VDT. Basically, it is the 28-cylinder, 3,500-h.p. Wasp Major used in the Air Force's B50 bombers. Combined with a "variable discharge" turbosupercharger manufactured by General Electric Co., it turns into a new engine with greatly increased power and flexibility...