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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wars, dynasties and governments come and go, but China's ancient agrarian moon festival goes on forever. Along the paddy walls of the countryside and through teeming lanes of towns, rich & poor alike gathered last week for family reunions and celebrations...
More Normal Granaries. A third Rockefeller enterprise, formed with Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, is planning grain elevators for São Paulo and Parana. At harvest time in southern Brazil, wheat and corn take a back seat to coffee. Through poor storage, as much as 80% of the wheat crop has been lost to rats and rot. Lacking storage space, farmers often sell at panic prices. By renting space in the new company's elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four...
Horace started poor, but from the beginning he knew how to climb to wealth and power over the necks of women. Back in Cambridge, Mass., some 30 years in the past, he stole Vic's girl (Diana Lynn) and got his start in her father's business. He jilted her when he met rich, well-connected Martha Vickers, and began to make his way as a financier. Thus established, he cut Martha adrift and set out to break the trickiest operator on the Street (Sydney Greenstreet), using, as his ally, Sydney's bored wife (Lucille Bremer). Then...
Poland's peasantry understood. While the "rich" ones (anyone owning more than 49 acres) quaked, some of the "poor" ones queued up for examinations preliminary to joining the Communists. In a Warsaw suburb three of them flunked. When asked "Who is Poland's greatest enemy?" (the prescribed answer: "American imperialism"), they said: "The Soviet Union...
Simon & Schuster found that the average mystery book in 1948 hardly sold above 3,500 copies, "poor bestsellers" seldom topped 50,000. At that rate too many books failed to earn their production cost...