Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Frederick, Md. (pop. 15,802) last week came an object lesson in war financing. In the Civil War, the town was threatened with destruction by Confederate General Jubal Early, chose instead to meet his $200,000 ransom demand, borrowed the money from its five banks. The debt could have been repaid by a $25 emergency tax on each of the 8,000 residents in 1864. But last week the contemporary city fathers, struggling to repay the loan out of ordinary revenues, figured they had already spent $331,000 in interest, would not have their Civil War debt finally liquidated...
...before Bailey could signal. The car wheeled and bolted over the roadside through the infantry, but was flagged down by the umpire. The Negroes had been so surprised that they forgot to fire. The infantry claimed not only gunfire but two well-landed grenades. "Did you throw any real object to simulate a grenade?" the umpire asked...
...issue of TIME has reached us today [Sept. 19], and the story about "Northwest Passage" is the object of considerable comment...
Church unity (for years the object of some of the best Protestant thought, hope and effort) advanced one cautious step last week. Two U.S. Protestant churches, each the result of a successful merger last decade, announced they had taken the first step toward merger. One is the Congregational Christian Churches (1,049,575 members), which in 1931 united the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 with a Methodist offshoot founded in North Carolina in 1793. The other is the Evangelical and Reformed Church (685,571 members), formed in 1934 by combining the Evangelical Synod (a Midwestern fusion of Lutheran...
...Army got set this week to teach American businessmen a thing or two. At month's end 100 hand-picked top business executives will report to the General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. for a tough, 30-day "orientation" course. Stated object: to teach businessmen about the Army and vice versa. Collateral object: to let the Army look over businessmen whose talents it can use, in uniform...