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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reported that U.S. divorces in 1947 were down 25% from 1946's alltime peak...
Since 1841, Mt. Everest (29,000 ft.), in the Himalayas, has reigned as the highest peak in the world. It has never been climbed.* But a few pilots thought they had seen a higher one among the Amne Machin Mountains of West China. When peripatetic Pen-Manufacturer Milton Reynolds went looking for such a peak (TIME, April 12), he ran into trouble with the Chinese government, failed to get anywhere or prove anything. Last week, another expedition quietly took off from a hard-packed loess runway at Lanchow to make the first recorded flight directly over the Amne Machins...
Pilot Chin circled and zigzagged over the range (most of the time at 18,000 ft.), found no competitors for Mt. Everest. The tallest peak he saw (22,000 ft.) was not among the Amne Machins but in the Kuolo range near by. Tallest Amne Machin peak observed: 19,000 ft. Drawled Chin: "I never thought those mountains were very high. But I didn't expect they'd be that damn...
Reported Cholly Knickerbocker, in open-mouthed awe: "We doubt that even the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor of China, or the Czar of Russia, when those fabulous courts were at their peak, ever attempted anything on a more colossal scale...
...around. Nonagricultural jobs reached 50,482,000-up 114,000 over February and 1,662,000 over the same period last year. Farm jobs totaled 6,847,000-up 76,000 over February. But U.S. employment was still down 2,750,000 from last year's July peak...