Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these words, WPBster Krug got ready to move WPB out of the driver's seat. After V-E day, WPB's job will center on the comparatively small segment of industry still turning out materiel for the Japanese war. The bulk of industry will...
...mien, Argentinians are addicted to dark clothes, funerals, and liver trouble. . . . Going about with downcast eyes, they are fussy about floors and pavements. These are elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment of the population. . . . None of the animals in South Africa have learned to keep quiet. Lions roar, monkeys chatter and even crickets squeak louder than is reasonable. The trees contain doves which croak and gurgle constantly...
...feast of Pentecost (May 28), the day on which the Church of Christ emphasizes the supranational, supraracial character of her mission, we learned that the Government of Hungary had agreed to enforce against the Jewish people a code of discriminatory laws. We were told that this unhappy segment of Israel in Hungary is being herded into ghettos after its homes and its shops had been systematically looted and pillaged...
...small army of Manhattan's Latins turned out to see Carmen Amaya, famed Spanish gypsy dancer at the Roxy Theater last week. But a very critical segment of that army really went to hear one of her numerous assistants, a coppery, curly-haired Spaniard who strummed a guitar. When he twanged and thrummed at the climaxes of a malagueña or a bulenia, the little group of strum-pots practically rose up and cried "Ole!" The man they were applauding was Sabicas, most famous of present day flamenco guitar players...
...Soap operas are a major form of entertainment for the less-educated segment of U.S. women. (Soap operas are the daily radio fare of about half of U.S. women...