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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist, poet, and teacher, he is today, as Peter Boolba, American citizen and ardent champion of democracy, a long way from the land of his origin and the city of his birth, Kiev. Born not so long ago, and yet long enough to have him prefer to withhold the date, Peter Boolba's scientific inclinations have enabled him to pursue the varied and kaleidoscopic career to which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position...
Little of the subsidy cash would go to the big integrated companies. (They and the Oil Congressmen prefer Mr. Ickes' plan for a price boost.) OPA tailored its plan to fit only the small operators of the 200,000 "stripper" wells-the marginal producers who turn out some 15% of all U.S. oil. Squeezed between rising costs and OPA's ceilings many a stripper has been forced to plug his wells and go out of business. And once plugged, the wells are often ruined by salt water seepage...
...asked Dorothy Thompson, "do we want to free our hands? Is it because we have a plan for Germany and Europe which we prefer not to publicize? Or is it because we have no plan...
...book is as effusively natural as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as full of names as a column by the late O. O. Mclntyre. It tells how Grace wowed the opera public from San Francisco to Bucharest, how she romanced with Artist George Biddle, how Maurice Chevalier declared her his only love and Charles MacArthur locked her in a men's lavatory. Between its name studded lines is the real story: the tale of a shrewd, attractive, indomitably ambitious girl from Slabtown, Tenn., who set out to become a celebrity, played every card just right, and finally got there...
Favorite picture with adults: an outsize rooster crowing against a farm background (see cut). Children seemed to prefer a brilliant pair of fish, one red, one blue. "Mighty fine fish," said one nine-year-old gallerygoer, "but they don't seem to be in no water...