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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the industrial area close to the immense Stalin auto plant, long ago converted to war production. Moscow's palatial Metro, now about ten miles long, remains at once a symbol of the brave new world the Russians hope to build, and a godsend to factory workers who save two hours daily getting to & from their eleven-hour shifts...
...friezes, murals and statuettes of Russian workers, soldiers, sailors. An austere statue of Joseph Stalin striding forward, one hand thrust in the breast of his coat, dominates the new terminal platform. The platform was decorated by Professor Vladimir Frolov, who was killed recently in Leningrad after burying mosaics to save them from Nazi shells. A large mural depicts a pilot, a tankman and a tommy-gunner against a background of a mailclad Muscovite warrior standing defiantly beneath the walls of the ancient Kremlin. Three-bank escalators carry crowds of lean grim-faced workers from the glittering platforms to the grey...
...predicament as examined in terms of "you-your home and kiddies, mom and the loved ones, old Doc Smith and the preacher, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Star-Spangled Banner-in short, the American scene" plus the still uglier clutter backstage. Novelist Wylie's high desire is to save the human race from its own worst enemy-itself. Whether he will succeed where such distinguished predecessors as Christ, Dostoevski and Blake have so far failed is open to question...
...enjoy yourself. But please go home to do your puking. It costs money to clean public parks. . .." Another time, when Mississippi's Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo visited Europe after being elected a second term, Sullens wrote: "When Bilbo reached Denmark, the band played 'God Save the Queen...
...reaching cut in airline passenger fares was announced jointly this week by giant amphibious Pan American Airways and its scrappy, up-&-coming offshoot, Pan American-Grace Airways. The cuts average 10%, affect all flights between the U.S. and Latin America, will save 500,000-odd Pan Am-Panagra customers $1,250,000 yearly. Sample cuts: Miami to Buenos Aires $550 to $495; Miami-Lima $354 to $320; Miami-Bogota $213 to $183. The new rates will become effective whenever the airlines get CAB approval (probably two months...