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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are now 16,000,000 U.S. women with jobs, 3,500,000 of them in war industry. In a factory job which does not require strength, a contented woman worker can turn out half again as much work as a man. The rub: keeping the women contented. So prone are they to complain, get sick, ache, stay home, quit, that many a factory supervisor will be glad when his women are paid off for good...
Untried, the Class of 1948, prone to the adventures of Greater Boston, has not yet fully reacted to the Scollay Square establishment, although some Freshmen are reported to have ventured there fearlessly already...
World Affair. As usual, Mackenzie King tied up his objections to Common wealth centralization with his general idea that big powers ought not to dominate the world, and that a strongly centralized Commonwealth would be too prone to play Big-Power politics. Precisely that idea seemed to prevail at the conference last week. A closer-to-home reason for his stand was his conviction that Canada must be in a position to go along with her big neighbor, the U.S., even when the U.S. goes against the British Commonwealth...
Promptly Producer Hornblow bugled: "It seems to me that the Negro press is prone to exaggerate the objectionable aspects of the book. They sometimes think of Uncle Tom as nothing more than a quisling." He also compared Mrs. Stowe with Tolstoy, called the resentment of the liberals and a "surprising" number of distinguished Negroes an insult and an irreverence toward the author...
Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark of the Fifth Army sprawled on the dusty Italian earth. An artillery observer lay prone beside him at the forward observation post. The valley ahead rolled gently like background for a Raphael canvas, touched with hedge-rimmed farms and tiny rivulets under a deep blue sky. Far off, snug against a spiny, pine-covered ridge, rose the white and red buildings of a village on the hard road from Salerno to Naples. There the Germans were stubbornly but thinly entrenched. Allied shells whipped across the classic landscape, scuffed up geysers of smoke...