Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Creative Mood. In Amherst, Mass., the University of Massachusetts investigated the causes of a production slowdown in chicken coops, decided it had found one trouble, advised farmers to knock politely in future, before bursting in on the hens at work...
...Gruening took time out to marry Dorothy Elizabeth Smith of Norwood, Mass. Of their three sons one, Ernest, is dead...
...Finland, right next door, they tell you what they think-even about Russia. Said one Finn, over a weak beer: "It's too bad. Russians are often such fine people individually. We have many things in common; we both like to drink. But get them in a mass and they go crazy...
There is no crazy Russian mass in Finland today. The Russians on the Control Commission have been cut to a mere 200. Every Finn I met wanted to get along with Russia, but not many of them liked the Soviet system. The Finns are doing their best to meet all armistice and peace treaty terms, including the highest per capita reparations of any World War II loser. Last year, reparations took one-fourth of Finland's total industrial production and more than one-eighth of her national income...
...deep in Velazco's debt. Back in 1944, Velazco police had charged, sabers swinging, into the Buenos Aires crowds which had turned a mass celebration of the liberation of Paris into a tumultuous demonstration against Perón's pro-Nazi military regime. A year later, police and nationalists had sprung Juan Perón back to power after spontaneous democratic clamor forced him into a brief, one-day exile...