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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee speaking. As readers of his abridged, bestselling A Study of History (TIME, March 17, 1947) well know, on the Toynbee time-&-space scale the Dark Ages are a mere cat nap and the British Empire a flash in the pan. In these 13 essays, mostly written in the past two years, Toynbee again underlines "the lone and outlandish music of ... parochial history" and speaks of the nations of this world as "subordinate and ephemeral political phenomena...
Reported Cholly Knickerbocker, in open-mouthed awe: "We doubt that even the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor of China, or the Czar of Russia, when those fabulous courts were at their peak, ever attempted anything on a more colossal scale...
...company, says young Rand, because "he didn't think much of it.'' But the washer has already paid off handsomely. All told, Bendix will pay $500,000 down, plus a royalty of $2.50 apiece on the first 100,000 washers. (It will scale down to $1 apiece after...
...Band, like many other student organizations, has run afoul of the money problem, and has finally been reduced to asking the University for help. With an eye to recent tuition and room rent rises, and a steadily increasing cost scale, the Faculty Committee on Student Activities has decided that now is not the time to begin subsidies to student organizations...
Some 20% of the plant's space is already rented by 38 lessees, chiefly for storage. Nevada thinks the plant could provide the foundation for big scale electro-chemical and electro-metallurgical manufacturing, e.g,, anything from dynamite to paint. At week's end, Nevada's Senator Patrick A. McCarran was trying to interest Du Pont and Alcoa...