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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry, 1946 had been the Year of Fat. Earnings were up 37% over 1945. Earnings in meat, lumber, cotton goods, shoes and leather goods were sometimes fabulous, while prices in those products soared almost out of sight...
...Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. . . . Numbers...
...many other ways, the U.S. was settling down. If World War II was to be followed by something approximating the jazz age, it was not yet in sight. Nightclub business was off everywhere-from Manhattan's Stork to Hollywood's Mocambo. The great migrations and frenzied travel stirred up by war were almost at an end. There were fewer marriages and fewer divorces in the first months of 1947 than there had been...
...enthusiastic doctor-delegate cried: "Say, this is a damn sight more important than some of the scientific papers." The big hit at a recent Pittsburgh convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics was a new kind of nursing bottle-a plastic job that seems to eliminate a few of the nuisances of baby-raising, including burps and constant bottle-boiling. The new bottle comes already sterilized, feeds the baby his milk without air, can be thrown away after one feeding...
...Shanghai, prices are out of sight; dollars must be exchanged into Chinese at 1 to 12,000 (less 3% Government Bank commission), and unspent Chinese dollars cannot be changed back. Manila is still a rubble heap. Hong Kong is nearer normal than any Far Eastern city. Prices are well controlled. A hotel room costs only $2 to $3 a person. Singapore is smellier, more overcrowded than ever. But the famed Raffles Hotel is open again to tourists-although they may find it too quaint to be comfortable...