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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highway to Build. Though the Oriente's fertile soil could easily feed food-short Bolivia, the government in La Paz long neglected the rich lowlands. Only lately, with their tin starting to peter out, have Bolivians begun to look eastward. Even now, they are interested less in the Oriente's crops than in the oil that stands in golden surface pools in the swamps near Santa Cruz...
Scoops & Stethoscopes. Though Chicagoans read its stories every day, few have ever heard of professionally anonymous City Press. Reason: it is a kind of trade secret of the loudly competitive newspapers, which share its cost and its news. But City Press is probably the most successful school of practical journalism in the U.S., and its alumni are as well-known as the academy is obscure...
...then a celebrating staffer took a shot at. the city-room clock; General Manager and Managing Editor Isaac Gershman put down the practice when a wild bullet holed his vest as he sat at his desk. Nowadays, a City Press reporter's life is less temerarious; though a juicy murder or a big fire still comes along to relieve the routine, it is mostly a hard-working job of covering the unexciting but important little stories that fill out the chronicle of the day. But Editor Gershman, now 54, is still boss...
Thus in Rome last week, the Holy Year of 1950 was officially proclaimed. The tradition is 650 years old. Originally planned to take place every 100 years, the intervals were shortened first to 50, finally to 25 years-though popes may declare a special Holy Year at any time, as Pius XI did in 1933 to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of the Crucifixion...
Good Old Insect Control. As for jobs, merchandising is still top choice (40%). The seniors do not seem to mind selling, though they prefer a salary to a commission. They dislike the high pressure of the insurance salesman's life (only 5% wanted to go into it) and almost none of them care for investment banking. But there is one rather new field that seems to be phenomenally popular: the field of "personnel." Seniors never know quite why the field appeals to them. They almost invariably say "Because I like people...