Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry's 450,000 workers. Now there are as many Italians as Jews, as older Jewish immigrants have died off, and their children, scorning the trade, studied to become teachers, lawyers and doctors. I.L.G.W.U. locals are strong in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia. In fact, the only major holdout is the Donnelly Garment Co. in Kansas City, against which the union has vainly hurled hordes of organizers for years, at a cost...
These two fields, plus strikes in the surrounding area, add up to one of the major North American oil developments in recent years. Alberta's known reserves are generally estimated at a billion barrels, its potential as high as five billion. If it should prove to be five billion, Alberta might eventually rival west Texas, today the biggest oil-producing area in North America...
...Italy, Ingrid Bergman finished the last scene of her picture for Director Roberto Rossellini, joined him in a champagne toast to its success, then made ready for her announced retirement. Observers noted that changes had come over the volcanic isle of Stromboli, the film's major setting: village belles were wearing their hair in the windblown Bergman manner, children were prattling in English, most of the natives were moviestruck. Like Ingrid herself, Stromboli would never be quite the same after her visit...
...began to devote his full time to the radio field. In 1944, with Yale's late James Rowland Angell, he set up the Joint Religious Radio Committee, mainly supported by the Congregational Church. Last year the J.R.R.C. became the Protestant Radio Commission, financed by contributions from 16 major denominations and eight leading interdenominational agencies...
...ardent worker on numerous Communist front organizations, he made his latest major contribution to the cause by serving as chairman of the pro-Communist Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York's Waldorf-Astoria last March (TIME, April...