Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Villarreal himself. He came for the dedication of a new highway strip. The day was hot, and after lunch the governor and his aides went down to the river, below the bridge, to bathe. Hundreds of villagers gathered to see His Excellency in a bathing suit. For a better view, at least 200 of them crowded onto the bridge, 45 feet above the rushing stream...
...important to remember that I was appointed successively to two dignified positions in the Anglican Church, first as Dean of Manchester [1924], and then as Dean of Canterbury [1931], by a Socialist Prime Minister*, and was appointed precisely because I had long urged that Socialism was, in my view, not only scientific but the logical consequence in our age of Christian morality...
...Rosy View. Predicted Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter: There is no recession in sight in the early part of 1948 because businessmen have been careful to keep inventories low. In his forecast he saw higher wages, higher dividends, higher prices, lower food stocks and lower taxes...
...that the Russians ship a certain amount of raw materials from their own zone to the West. Russia has received more than 50% of all the plants removed, but has delivered no raw materials so far. She also consistently blocked Germany's economic unification, which, in the U.S. view of the Potsdam Agreement, was a condition for reparations shipments from the West...
Reporter Irwin Rosten confronted each repairman with a portable radio "in perfect operating condition" except for a simple short circuit "in plain view." Some shops recommended repairs ("practically no two alike"): "a new condenser," "a short in the transformer," "a realignment job," "the oscillator is out of whack." Range of estimates: from $9 to $15. None mentioned the short circuit. What's more, the "radio servicemen" surreptitiously wrecked the volume control, the tuning control, two tubes and the batteries, putting the set "completely out of commission...