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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, according to Dr. Douglass, there are "more than 700 new communities in the United States-all of them towns with at least 2,500 population-which do not have a single church . . . In the midst of a highly mobile population, a church which is immobilized by denominational divisions just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now Is the Time | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

U.S. Protestantism's excessive fragmentation, says Dr. Douglass, is also responsible for a crisis in the theological seminaries. "So long as most of the 250 Protestant denominations try to train their own ministers, the quality of the training must suffer ... Even more serious is the fact that many young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now Is the Time | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Over the years, as he recalls them, old "Mac" McCarthy had seen and heard enough to satisfy himself that his childhood decision was right. Traveling through a good part of the world, observing the contrast of rich churches with peasant poverty, shocked by hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secularists at Work | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

When a cosmic ray (an electrically charged particle from outer space) approaches the earth, it is deflected by the earth's magnetic field. If it is speeding fast enough, it slams through this interference and plunges into the atmosphere. The most powerful particles, whose speed gives them an energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Magnetic Field? | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

The Eastern roads had persuasive arguments to prove that their plight was not their fault. With investors shying away from railroads the carriers had trouble financing major improvements, except what could be done out of earnings. Furthermore, the ironclad rules of the railway brotherhoods kept railroad costs high by featherbedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Red Signal | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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