Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teheran came reports that Soviet tanks and armored cars had rolled over the border into Azerbaijan and opened fire on a Persian outpost at Qanli Boulaq near the Caspian Sea. Two Persians were killed. The border incident was the most serious of six such attacks on Persia in the past few months...
...Washington, Representative J. Parnell Thomas was in "good" condition after a 2½-hour operation. His doctors said they had cut out the cause of the internal hemorrhages that have plagued him for the past eight years...
...Waksman's slow, unspectacular search for new antibiotics still goes on. In the past ten years he and his associates at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University, New Brunswick have examined more than 100,000 cultures of organisms found in the soil of nearby farms...
Most of what the 21st annual awards told of the state of the cinema in 1948 lay in the presentation shindig itself. Planned in Hollywood's new economy, the affair was low-budgeted and undersized compared to past performances of the town's most profitable yearly publicity stunt. Only two searchlights cut into the overcast outside the theater; half a dozen blocks away, three Hollywood searchlights blazed gaudily for the opening of a new self-service gas station...
Ultimate Discoveries. No longer driven by the goad of poor gentility, Millionaire Shaw is as ready as any tycoon to bemoan the woes of being wealthy. In his conversations with Neighbor Winsten, the Shavian past & present unroll like an endless, multicolored ribbon...