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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love war and we don't fight with the dizzy enthusiasm shown in 1870 and 1914. We love our work and know that war is a roaring cataract between us and our future. We hate it because it steals precious years, banishes our life aims to an unknown future and upsets all our plans. But because of this hate we must say yes to it. ... Our enemies can hardly even attempt to demand this 'yes' to war from their people. Yet the word embodies . . . Victory...
...weary search for a vast new northwestern Oklahoma oilfield in what geologists long ago named the Anadarko Basin. Though seismograph crews have swarmed over the basin for eleven years, dynamiting and painstakingly recording the sound waves that came back to their earphones, its area and oil content are still unknown. Until the Cottingham came in on the east flank of the basin, Anadarko produced little but "dry hole money"-the cash that oil companies advance to an enterprising wildcatter, to be repaid in oil or nothing...
...third [plaque] is a poem of requiem by an unknown marine. It reads...
There is a legend that the greatest geniuses are acclaimed only long after they are dead. Once in a while it comes true. Last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall an audience acclaimed a composer who died in 1896, is still virtually unknown to the musical public, and is regarded by many sincere partisans as Beethoven's symphonic equal. His name: Joseph Anton Bruckner...
...French workers at the behest of the Nazi Reich. His accusers said that the Council of Resistance in the homeland had long ago condemned Pierre Pucheu to death. They cited repressive Vichy measures bearing Pierre Pucheu's signature. Presumably their most telling evidence was presented in camera, lest unknown Frenchmen in France suffer...