Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average citizen could only hang on to the balloon as hard as he was able, try to enjoy the ride, and hope fervently for the best. But he was beginning to feel more & more like poor Mr. Thurston...
More than 1,500 Puerto Ricans arrived in the U.S. last week. The majority were beggar-poor, had no prospects of jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
Naturally enough for a novel of these times, the theme is the problem of freedom. Mathieu, a poor professor, has spent his whole life shaking off human responsibilities in a desire to be free, but he has only succeeded in making his life meaningless. Through the three-day span of the story, he sees many people, all of whom try to establish contact with him, and draw him into their society, to give his life a purpose. But though Mathieu would like to take the plunge, he is not convinced of the rightness of being a bourgeois or a communist...
...railroads turned out to be pretty well fed. Union Pacific's six months' earnings, at $20,601,834, were 51% above the 1946 period; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's, $20,609,310, were up 57%. Some 25 roads did much better than last year-a poor year-including the New York Central Railroad Co., which made $2,053,711 v. a 1946 loss...
Died. Robert Latham Owen, 91, one of Oklahoma's first two Senators (from 1907 until he went blind in 1925), co-author of the Federal Reserve Act (which in 1939 he called a failure owing to poor administration), and great friend of the Indian (he was part Cherokee); in Washington...