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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II brought peace to Palestine. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem quit having Jews mobbed at the Wailing Wall. Arab and Jewish youths joined the British Near Eastern Army. Jews entered Arab districts without risk of being blown to pieces, and vice versa. Jewish and Arab citrus fruit growers talked of forming cooperatives and Arabs in Jerusalem went to Jewish nightclubs. Problems like further Jewish immigration and smaller Arab land ownership were put by for the duration...
...less than 1930, 55% less than 1933. For this Standard Brands could chiefly blame the fact that few U. S. citizens like the taste of yeast, no matter how many vitamins the Fleischmann brand contains. More than a decade ago, when the U. S. housewife had quit baking bread at home, Fleischmann's swank advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, had an answer: yeast for health. By testimonials, by quotes from scientists, Standard Brands plugged yeast (three cakes a day) for pimples, constipation, that tired feeling. In rolled the money, for there is more profit percentage in a yeast...
...saga of the newspaper world. But the old-fashioned belly-laugh finds a fruitful haven in "His Girl Friday," with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell carrying off most of the honors. The story, what there is of it, is nothing new; girl reporter divorces the boss and decides to quit for a quiet home life with an insurance salesman. Boss dislikes the idea, and with the help of a real reporter's murder story gets girl back. Salesman goes back to Albany with his mother. Thereby hangs the tale, but the men who have adapted it from the Hecht...
Because of the rapidly rising anti-Jewish sentiment, Schiffer was urged by friends to quit the country before it would be too late, but he decided to remain. Two weeks after he made this decision, the first great program came...
...Sweden met at Copenhagen's Christiansborg Palace. The Foreign Minister of Finland, which is perforce no longer neutral, did not attend. As they met the Nazi press lectured them on how to be a good neutral: 1) follow the U. S. example and stop shipping to Britain; 2) quit the League of Nations; 3) stick to the recent neutrality proclamation of Sweden's Gustaf V (TIME...