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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear. Last week, on the 111th anniversary of the Blood River battle, the thanksgiving day turned into a raucous demonstration of Boer chauvinism. Prime Minister Daniel Malan's nationalist government formally dedicated a new monument to the Voortrekkers, a massive, brooding granite tabernacle on the boulder-strewn veld near Pretoria. South Africa's 8,000,000 black people were excluded from all celebrations. For days before the actual dedication ceremonies, while bonfires blazed in the hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel...
...swimming team will not take its customary trip to Florida this vacation but Hal Ulen ordered all freshmen and varsity swimmers to practice at pools near their homes...
Upper New Hampshire Partly cloudy today with temperatures well above freezing except near freezing higher elevations. Moderate southerly winds, fresh to strong higher elevations...
...Near the doll house were found its prospective inhabitants. Dolls appear to fall into two categories: those with clothes on--or the impracticals, and those without garments, or the practical ones. In the former group were seen such numbers as the Little Genius, the Princess Margaret Rose, and one which was gotten up like Sophie Tucker but was labelled Italian Dolly. The undressed dolls are more active this year than ever before. One boasts of a "real soft nose and almost human ears." This one promised also to blow bubbles when given a pipe. They all can drink water this...
Even though the grocery business stands near its alltime high, sales-sharp Nathan Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest U.S. food wholesaling organization packed a sample case eight weeks ago and took off on a tour of hundreds of stores in ten states. He frequently donned a cotton coat and worked for stores behind the counters, "cut the cans" (gave out free samples), watched shoppers' buying habits...