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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curved Shofar (ram's horn) to their mouths and blew long, wailing blasts. Thus, Jews were called upon to take stock of their souls. It was the beginning of the two-day period of Rosh Hashana, the sacred celebration of the New Year 5710,* and the start of the ten High Holy Days which end Oct. 3 in Yom Kippur...
After a headlong start early in the year, infantile paralysis was slowing down. By last week, U.S. Public Health Service chartmakers could point with confidence to the week ended Aug. 20 (in which 3,419 cases were reported) as the year's peak. Since then, the curve has been downward. But 1949 was certain to have a staggering polio toll marked against it: already 29,051 cases had been reported, and by year's end the total would be nearer...
...Practices? The Horvitz monopoly was threatened when the Federal Communications Commission licensed radio stations in Mansfield and later in Elyria (ten miles from Lorain). From the start, Mansfield's WMAN and Elyria's WEOL were fought by the Horvitz papers-the Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 26,000) and the Lorain Journal (circ. 21,000). Merchants complained to the federal government that both papers refused to mention the radio stations, and canceled or turned down newspaper advertising contracts with businessmen who bought radio time. When the Horvitz brothers applied for licenses to start their own radio stations, they were...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...
...history lesson is modestly pegged on the career of a young Navy pilot (Gary Cooper) who gets his start in 1921 aboard the U.S.S. Langley and retires at the end of World War II as a rear admiral. Meanwhile, along with a salty senior officer (admirably played by Walter Brennan), he has fought a stubborn battle for carrier-launched aircraft-in outmoded planes, in Annapolis classrooms and in a series of Washington lobbies. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Navy's Cooper happens to be stationed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as it is making for Pearl Harbor...