Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hinterland. Slowly its farms turned into city blocks, its mud streets grew cobblestones, its docks stuck fingers into the sea. First its sewers, then its wires, and finally its trains went underground. The higher its buildings rose, the deeper went their foundations. Its bowels became a vast catacomb laced with the ganglia of communication. It was an aggressive organism; it touched everything within reach, attached to itself everything it touched...
...Brilliant Parades . . ." Any briefing on the state of the world in the spring of '48 must start with the way the vast battle between Communism and democracy is going. There could be no doubt that Communism had suffered setbacks. It had been stopped in Western Europe when it failed to wreck France's economy and lost the Italian elections. It had been slowed down, at least, in Greece, where the Red guerrillas had not scored a major success all winter. It had been, forced to watch while the Marshall Plan became reality...
...April 1946, SCAP staged a free election. Three-fourths of the 36 million registrants voted. MacArthur's critics feared that the elections would be premature, that the people would not turn out to vote, or that extremists, right or left, would win too much power. But the vast majority of seats went to moderates...
Land of Earners. Arvida's other aspect is industrial. The great aluminum plant (the world's largest individual producer) is a mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...
Outsider In. The vast (assets over $4 billion) New York Life Insurance Co. went outside the company for a new president to replace George L. Harrison, 61, who was upped to chairman. Picked for the job was Harvardman Devereux C. Josephs, 54, onetime partner in Philadelphia's Graham Parsons & Co. brokerage house. Later he headed the Carnegie-endowed Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, and since 1945, has been president of Carnegie Corp. where he supervised spending (about $5,000,000 in 1947) on philanthropic projects...