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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contained in tomatoes and citrus fruits, is a simple chemical made from glucose. In 1934 its price was $213 an ounce; in 1937 it became the first of the vitamins to be manufactured synthetically and its price dropped to $3.60 an ounce. Today it is made on a scale of about 100 tons a year at $1 an ounce. One ounce is enough for the daily need of about 500 adults...
...London News Chronicle wrote the epitaph on the grave of earlier hopes : "Nothing less than a full-scale sea, land and air assault can blast (the Jap) out of Burma." From Chungking, TIME'S Correspondent T. H. White filed a dispatch through U.S. and Chinese censors: "It is no secret anywhere in the world that the decision of the Battle of Asia will be fought in Burma some time...
...second half of the show verges on large-scale revue. Soldiers dream of beautiful white-clad women; a handsome ballet to Chopin has a lyrical start, a lunatic finish; a big South American number combines hot dancing with jokes ("Army life is terribly strict-lights out at 9 o'clock, women out at 10"). For the finale, veterans of World War I clamber on to the stage while the cast slides into the past with Tipperary, Pack Up Your Troubles, Mad'moiselle from Armentieres. Then the cast roars into the future with...
...during his spare time, C. P. E. managed to turn out some 700 compositions, many of them big in scale, revolutionary in manner, rich in quality. They set musical styles for a hundred years after his death. Among the most popular were 52 concertos for harpsichord and strings, some of which are still played in concerts today. Nine of them have been published, many have disappeared...
With these grand-scale postwar applications now filed with CAB, Northeast's shrewd president, Samuel Joseph Solomon, said dryly that these two activities, together with its already pending application for service between Boston and New York, are all the company envisages for the present...