Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl (Herzl's Hill). In groups of ten, farmers, workers, businessmen, old settlers and new immigrants slowly walked by and emptied bags of earth into the grave. A rabbi read the Kaddish (prayer for the dead). Drums sounded. Then the great crowd, estimated at 100,000, sang Hatikvah, the Zionist anthem...
...Dying City. Despite Ta Rung Pao's complaint, Shanghai was well on the way to becoming an economic graveyard. Industrial production was down an estimated 50%, and still falling. "The Chin Chong Iron Works," read an item in the press, "is trying to sell electric fans for 30,000 jenminpiao each (about $12 U.S.), which is only sufficient to cover labor costs, but there are no buyers...
...ghostlike, empty village of Vronderon, near the Albanian border, one Lazanis Nestoridis, a private in the government army, pinned up a penciled notice on the front door of a two-story stone house. It read: "Friends, please do not remove the few remaining articles from this house. It's mine. I'm a soldier." Vronderon was Lazanis' home, which he had not seen in four years. The house was all he had left: his wife and children had been carried off by the retreating guerrillas. Lazanis told a visiting U.N. Balkans Commission team that 'his family...
Laurence, tipped off last spring by a chemist friend of the theoretical possibilities of the seed, read up on the subject and was deeply impressed by what he found. He discussed the matter with President Truman, who passed him on to Oscar Ewing, Federal Security administrator. U.S. scientists had already been ordered to Liberia to study the plants, collect seeds, and investigate the possibilities of large-scale cultivation there, or of transplanting to the U.S. After talking with Laurence, Ewing expansively declared that "this may be to chemistry what the atomic bomb was to physics," and asked...
Keep Me Supplied. Things were hard at first. Lydia made the compound herself in her cellar kitchen; she and her three sons and one daughter bottled it in the evenings while father Isaac read aloud. In her spare time, Lydia wrote advertising circulars which her sons distributed door to door. But sales were precious few until son Dan invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly...