Word: popping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time, the commuter-residents of Greenwich (pop. 40,400) were in a genteel uproar. The Greenwich Community Concert Association summoned Adler and Draper before it, asked them if they believed in overthrowing the government by force. "No," they said. Did they believe in making changes by a majority vote? "Yes," they said. That was enough for the Association. The concert went on, Draper danced, Adler played the mouth organ. And they filed a $200,000 libel suit against Hester McCullough...
...Lost the War? Last week, Chancellor Adenauer formally committed his country to the new Western policy of making something good of the Germans. In a quiet, unceremonious business session atop the Petersberg, overlooking the new German capital at Bonn (pop. 110,000), Adenauer and the Western Allied High Commissioners initialed the "protocol of agreements" which put into force the decisions of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Nov. 28). Next day, Adenauer submitted the protocol to the Bundestag (Lower House). The new German Parliament forthwith proved one thing: it was no rubberstamp Reichstag...
Last week Americana (the "villa" was officially dropped in the 19303), now a snug and thriving little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...
...bottling plant in Kennewick, Wash. (pop. 6,800) two wartime Navy buddies, ex-Lieutenants Robert Philip and Glenn Lee, started the Tri-City Herald, first daily newspaper in Washington's close-linked triangle of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. In the next two years, their hard-hitting editorial campaigns on local issues earned them a reputation as fearless crusaders, pushed their circulation up from 2,000 to 10,258 and put them in the black. Fortnight ago, they got into their toughest scrap...
...posters loudly proclaiming "They Need You" pop up around the College, students are discovering that the Combined Charities and Student Council Drive has begun. This year's drive contains several innovations, most of which are good; but here is one which still needs improvement...