Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's wartime grey is now covered with bright paint glistening in the long northern sun. Bombed buildings have been repaired. A dozen fine apartment buildings have shot up in one Helsinki district since the armistice of Sept. 19, 1944. There are new cottages and barns along nearby country roads...
After a publicity campaign that recalled the gilded '20s, northern France's No. 1 beach resort held its first summer opening in six years. The 10,000-odd visitors, including some 2,000 Britons and a scattering of Americans, saw the-Normandy coast playground as they had seen it on picture postcards-tree-shaded streets, restful, gaily decorated buildings and a placid, dull-green...
...part of Russia's war of nerves on Turkey? In 1940 Zhukov led the troops that took over Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania. Odessa is the military district nearest the Dardanelles...
Rent control was just about all that had been saved out of what Harry Truman wanted. In five days and four long night sessions, southern Democrats and northern Republicans from agricultural states had helped each other get what they thought their constituents wanted. Out the window went controls on livestock, meat, poultry, eggs, all dairy products, grain and feed, tobacco, cottonseed and soybeans and their products. The Senate wrote in a reservation on petroleum; it was taken out from under price controls, but was left subject to control if the Decontrol Board certifies that supply is insufficient to meet domestic...
Jones built up an interracial (50-50) faculty, soon boasted Negro names like Sociologist Charles S. Johnson, Librarian-Author Arna W. Bontemps (St. Louis Woman), the late Poet James Weldon Johnson. Northern Negroes, reversing the usual tide, began to go South to Fisk. (1946 enrollment: 1,034, with 48% from above the Mason-Dixon line. In 1926, all but 11% were Southern Negroes...