Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attachment than is required from the East European satellites. Apart from the vast extent and remoteness of China, the fact that the Chinese Communists have had an army and territory of their own for more than twenty years . . . puts the Chinese in a different category from all other non-Soviet Communists...
...Paint-Maker Wallace F. Bennett in N.A.M.'s top elective post. Putnam got his start in business at 16 as a machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single man, he speaks fondly of his employees as "the Markem gang," refers to the plant's janitor as "the man in charge of cleanliness facilities...
...year drew toward its close, a wacky picture book, White Collar Zoo, stood at the head of the non-fiction bestsellers, and a vastly overrated picaresque novel with a panoramic ancient setting, The Egyptian, ruled the current fiction roost. One was a good-natured freak, the other an escape hatch, and neither of them was a suggestive commentary on the year's literary inventory...
...NON-FICTION The war, the uneasy peace and the many-directioned search for personal and world repose accounted for most of the year's best-read books. No war books achieved the popularity of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe or Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. From Winston Churchill came Their Finest Hour, the stately, grandly stated second volume of his World War II memoirs. Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery went on with his battle report in El Alamein to the River Sangro, but its army-manual style limited its appeal chiefly to professional soldiers. A more...
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