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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...20th Century, Laval's faculty discovered belatedly that all this was not enough; French Canada needed more. New mines (copper, gold, iron and aluminum) had been established in Quebec's north; vast power developments were being built to serve them. The giant pulp & paper industry depended on scientific forestry. The sons of the habitants wanted to know about engineering and business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: The New Laval | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...most famous Gould stunt has been the eight-year-old How America Lives series, in which the Journal not only reports on "typical" families in vast detail, but also fixes up their kitchens, their budgets (which never mention anything spent for liquor) or their personalities-whichever is in worst repair. They like to say that their readers are a jump ahead of them; the fact is that the Journal is out to educate women just as fast as it can, while rattling many a social skeleton in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies' Choice | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...place of the current act, President Conant suggested the building of a vast reserve establishment of all youths of 18 to 28. He proposed placing every youth, upon graduation from high school, or on becoming 18, into a local unit subject to orders from the national government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Criticizes Draft Bill--'Unfair' | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Crimson squad, including a host of operatives whose previous abilities had been made known only to the coaching staff, responded with alacrity. Chip Gannon performed in his slashing 1946 pattern, Jim Noonan's Brookline followers popped their vast buttons, and Phil Isenberg's name sounded out over the public address system more often than the Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Many Can We Score? Is New Football Criterion | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Nazis with American patents necessary for war-making. Perhaps you have also forgotten that many other American firms helped out the Nazi government in its early, and sometimes in its later, stages. Henry Ford, the anti-semitic, was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and his bully-boys, using his vast resources to aid the latter. A picture of Ford hung in Hitler's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

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