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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League for a Free Palestine) asserting that Gruner was still alive only because the pressure of U.S. opinion restrained the British from a "pogrom which will write finis to the Hebrews in Palestine." Amid this hysteria the actual crime in which Gruner had been involved was almost lost from sight. It contained in miniature the chief elements of the Palestine crisis...
...that one new magazine could be born last week, three magazines were killed. Subscribers to Asia, Inter-American and Free World were asked to switch-sight unseen-to a new monthly, United Nations World. Only a handful refused to; U.N. World started life with a circulation...
Officer Glennon stated last night that he would have no trouble in recognizing Sylvester Gardiner on sight. While on duty during football games at Soldiers Field, he talked to the football center several times. "He was always very friendly to me," he recalled...
...coated breakwater near Northwestern University's campus at Evanston, Student Dwight Cook watched the 20-foot waves pound in from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...
...From distant forests as far away as 400 kilometers, floated downriver wherever possible and carried on coolies' shoulders elsewhere, came timbers. What the bitter strength of Chinese labor did with these timbers is still an amazing sight to see: trestle bridges, often several tiers high, provide temporary crossings. Beside them rise the concrete foundations of permanent structures...