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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races. But in Chungking last week the festival's origin was less in mind than the chance it gave for a few hours of play, the feeling it gave of China's ageless endurance...
...were scores of others, in industry and in the Government, who anonymously got things going when bigwigs were not much help. The first butadiene and synthetic rubber in the new program was produced in May 1942. Within the month 250,000 tons of annual capacity, all pre-Baruch in origin, will be in production...
...inhabitants (predominantly of Polish origin) fight their way through its name (which commemorates the first local American military commander) by pronouncing it Hamtram-mick...
...anybody is through for good, it or he is said to have "gone for a Burton." ... If one of your "oppos" (universal term for buddies) is killed, you don't say he was killed, you just say, "Poor old Joe has gone for a Burton." . . . There is an origin to this expression. One of the most popular beers in prewar England was Burton beer. If anyone was wanted and he wasn't around, it was said that he had "gone for a Burton," for more often than not, he was to be found in the nearest...
...Common Origin. Common Wealth had its first discernible origin in 1940, when philanthropic, wildly socialistic, 36-year-old Sir Richard launched his Forward March Movement with the slogan: "Liberty, Equality, and Material Well Being." In early 1941, Author J. B. Priestley and a group of other intellectuals prodded the Churchill Government with a manifesto demanding a definition of Britain's war and peace aims, a more positive social consciousness...