Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholicism's hold throughout the South is little stronger. One-fifth of the U.S. population lives in the area bounded by the Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers -but only one-fortieth of the U.S. Catholics. Here, in this virgin field for Catholic proselytizing, Catholicism is making its greatest percentage gains. Example: the diocese of Savannah-Atlanta in 1940 made proportionately 14 times as many converts as Boston and four times as many as Chicago-two great Catholic strongholds. Since 1937 the number of Catholics in the South has increased...
...smelters agreed to pay 11.5? a pound for the scrap, but meanwhile Alcoa has announced that on Sept. 30 the price of virgin aluminum will be reduced from 17? to 15? a pound. Fearing that Leon Henderson will make a similar reduction (from 17?) in his ceiling on secondary aluminum (made from scrap), the scrap smelters-mostly smallish businesses-are jittery about being squeezed between the price they have to pay and their selling price...
...Summer Night: the finest of them, is a subtle story using only one dubious trick -a deaf woman's memory-and telling of a night-crazy little girl, a faded husband, a pathetically ill-matched rendezvous, a tortured, aging male virgin...
...sides; $3.50). Sultry, brunette-voiced Singer Houston's inimitable way with Brazil's suave, tropical folk melodies makes this the album of the month. Her famed, tongue-twisting Dansa de cabodo (Frog Song) and primitive, wailing Berimbao (about a dolphin who transformed itself into a youth no virgin could resist) are heady as Negrita...
...hair curlers, meat cutters, ice-cream dippers, anything and everything made of aluminum. Just how much usable aluminum-for-defense was collected will not be known until the mountains of donated scrap are melted down. (None of it can be used in defense industry, but this scrap will release virgin aluminum that can be so used.) But long before the last pot had clattered into the last community bin, the drive had shown what happens when the U.S. citizenry is given something specific, useful, understandable to do for defense...