Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church representatives in 400 years. In 1939 the three major denominations of U.S. Methodism merged into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between Northern and Southern Presbyterians...
Future Plans. Well heeled at war's end, he decided the time had come to plunge. For this he picked one of the best pieces of undeveloped land in Southern California, a 625-acre tract at Baldwin Hills, a short run from downtown Los Angeles...
...British claimed that they were only trying to protect the native grower "from short-term fluctuations of world prices." They denied any intention of nullifying the United Nations' economic agreements (see above). But to U.S. cocoa importers these protestations had a hollow ring. British price-fixing had little effect in wartime, when U.S. cocoamen could buy only what was allotted to them by international agreement, and could sell only at ceiling prices. Now, with ceilings off and allocations due to go Jan. 31, importers were hoping for a free market...
...Russians studied microscopic tracks of free silver which mesons had made on photographic films (probably exposed at high altitudes, where cosmic ray effects are strongest). Their authorized, translated report is far from clear, but apparently they found what they were looking for in the sensitive emulsion: groups of short lines arranged like a star or a chicken-track. Each of these, they said, was an X which marked the spot where a negative meson had murdered an atomic nucleus...
...such strong-willed people have been locked so long in conflict, there should be some kind of explosion from within themselves. Instead, melodrama is catapulted from without. A tricking-the-trickster that would be just right for rounding off a cold hard comedy about mere knaves is a little short-weight for people as generally base and passionate as they are specifically greedy...