Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble bust of plump, pretty Sabine (aged two),by her father, famed French Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), was bought by Philanthropist Edward S. Harkness and is still owned by his widow...
...Lewis, unable to beat the ganged-up might of coal-industry leaders, was trying to pick them off, company by company. Actually, John L. Lewis was winning nothing but minor skirmishes, which he proclaimed as victorious battles. Most of his 480,000 miners were still working a three-day week. By week's end, barely 2% of the nation's soft-coal mines had surrendered to his terms...
...Economic conditions in Western Europe are still bad, and until they get better the U. S. will have a lot of trouble convincing Europeans that its aid is doing much good...
There are still a few hardy--or foolhardy--old car enthusiasts in the neighborhood these days who are defying the laws of diminishing returns and displaying a strong faith in God, Montgomery Ward, and anti-freeze...
Only commentator H. V. Kaltenborn '09 expressed real satisfaction with the present state of radio in the United States. He saw the industry as steadily improving today but urged the public to organize drives as means to improving still further the programs...