Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provided He Settle." During the war years (which he spent partly in the U.S. working on the synthetic rubber program), Weizmann listened hopefully to the friendly reassurances of Churchill and Roosevelt, and with special interest to Churchill's proposition that King Ibn Saud after the war be "made lord of the Middle East . . . provided he settle with...
...Flops, No Hits. For all its likeness to other Porter openings, Kiss Me, Kate was a special milestone. For several years Composer Porter had not been regarded as a sure-fire Broadway investment, in spite of the fact that five of his songs (Begin the Beguine, Just One of Those Things, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out of You) ranked last year among the 35 all-time U.S. popular favorites. (The record is matched only by Irving Berlin, and was not equaled by such Tin Pan Alley titans as Jerome Kern...
...Oldsters, whose eye muscles are less flexible, may need special eyeglasses for "middle-distance" viewing...
...spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes, curtains, tablecloths, napkins, quilts and slipcovers...
Atomic energy has been produced in sizable quantities ever since 1942, but so far, not a single kilowatt has been put to practical, peacetime use. The Atomic Energy Commission, smarting from criticism, decided last summer to set up a special "Reactor Development Division" to start the reactors reacting...