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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported "revolution" might well have taken the form of big-scale, violent demonstrations, like the EAM demonstrations which touched off the Greek civil war. But whatever was happening, one thing seemed clear: the days of the Radescu Government were numbered...
...wondered what had happened to the Germans. Here & there they stabbed at the Red forces, everywhere they fought desperately to hold, but they had not struck out in a full-scale counterattack as they had done four historic times before to check Russian offensives. Surrounded in cities behind the Russian lines were an estimated 650,000 Germans. Perhaps the long drain on manpower was at last beginning to tell. The 50-day agony of Budapest, one of the surrounded strong points, came to an end. The guns fell silent and out of the rubble crawled the garrison, 110,000 dazed...
...meeting, where one speaker, Dr. Mark A. Dawber, executive secretary of the Home Missions Council, said: "The Roman Catholic Church is influencing public affairs and the community pattern in a much more vital and deliberate way than Protestantism, [ which ] is too divided to influence the . . . pattern on a national scale...
Uncle Sam's Fish College. The Fish and Wildlife Service has already proved, on a small scale, that the thing can be done. In 1939, while Grand Coulee was being built, the Service's fish experts began to trap salmon bound up river, rushed them by truck to a huge hatchery at Leavenworth, Wash. which Government biologists call "Uncle Sam's Fish College." There, far from their birthplace, the fish were propagated artificially-females were split open for their eggs and milt from the male salmon was squirted on them...
When the soldiers reported for work Dec. 27, the civilian workers ran out no red carpets for them. Most of the soldiers were grass-green. They had to be taught tire-building work, but they received the prevailing wage scale for experienced workers in addition to their Army pay. Most of the civilians belonged to C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America, while the soldiers were nonunion...