Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PHIL BUTLER Worcester, Mass...
ARTHUR W. BOWLER Boston, Mass...
...unemployed are in the building trades-precisely where Germans should be at their hardest work, providing roofs for the millions of homeless in cellars and bunkers. West Germany's living standard is rising; but at the same time, the gap between the wealthy few and the great mass of workers is widening ever faster...
...Karens have always been a separate people; their conversion to Christianity intensified their division from the Buddhist Burmans. The first Karen convert was Ko Tha Byu, a Karen bandit bought out of slavery by Dr. Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary from Maiden, Mass, who had arrived in Burma in 1813. Ko Tha Byu learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive...
...grown, slowly and tediously, from molds. Last week Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. made a dramatic announcement: the first practical synthetic production of an important antibiotic, chloromycetin. The process means that chloromycetin will be quickly and cheaply available for any doctor. It may also point the way to mass production of other antibiotics...