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...Methodist Board of Temperance headquarters in Washington, D.C. announced ruefully that during a three-month period ending in June, no less than 9,053 new liquor outlets sprang up in the U.S., while in all of 1954 the number of new churches increased by only 5,697. At present, according to the board, there are 141,733 more saloons, bars, cocktail lounges and liquor stores than there are houses of worship...
...midst of an air age which brought the farthest part of the globe within 36 hours flying time. Wendell Willkie circled the earth and reported that there was "one world." And some people began to think that nations cooperating in war would cooperate in peace. From such hopes sprang organizations like Federal Union and Student Federalists--neither of them large, but both extremely vocal. A split soon developed within the movement, however, between those favoring a Union Now of the democracies and those advocating a universal world federation. This split eventually forced the virtual disbanding of Federal Union...
...nearby town ("take your time; take half an hour"). The men got food in their camps twice daily (at 4:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.), and box lunches on the fire line during the day. On the eighth day, with the fire almost under control, a wind sprang...
...When mankind got electricity and steam," says Steiger, "factories sprang up, and residential sections were thrown around them without planning. That's what we must avoid in the atomic age. The architect should be Number...
...thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes." -Walt Whitman...