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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land." Last summer ECAgriculturists revived the old Fascist program of land reclamation (as it was carried out in the Pontine Marshes) as a sensible way to more productivity and less agrarian discontent. With U.S. prodding and financial help, three districts are being reclaimed; eventually they will account for one-third of the nation's arable land, provide cheap plots for the landless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: After the Merry-Go-Round? | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Actress Madeleine Carroll, 43 (Goodbye, My Fancy), was ready to go back to Paris to talk things over with third husband Henri Lavorel. "I hope for a settlement of our problems," she confided to a Manhattan gossip columnist, "but I want to reserve judgment until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

When Eva Mae Bradbury started school near the little Kansas wheat town of Ada (pop. 150), she happened to be the only one in her class. She sat in with the second and third grades and wished that she might soon skip a grade, or that a new family, with another child her age, would move into the neighborhood. She kept on wishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Awfully Strange | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Bradbury, 16 (see cut). All through school Eva Mae had sat in with other classes, had never really had a room or a teacher of her own. The first year of high school she took second-year subjects; in the second year, first-year subjects. Third and fourth years were similarly reversed. In third year, as the junior class, she supplied the annual supper for the seniors: counting teachers and friends, there were 25 mouths to feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Awfully Strange | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Presbyterians, the country's third largest Protestant denomination, were making plans to reunite their splintered sects. In Buffalo last week, Northern Presbyterians (the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.), with 2,300,000 members, held their 161st General Assembly, elected a moderator from the South for the first time since 1834. Assemblymen hoped that Dr. Clifford E. Barbour, pastor of Knoxville's Second Presbyterian Church, might speed a merger with the 660,000 Southern Presbyterians (the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.) who have been on their own since the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One Great Church? | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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