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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network of small plants for building materials and consumer goods is well established, does O.C.I, recommend hydroelectric plants on the northern slopes of the Elborz mountains, national reforestation projects, and irrigation programs in the desert regions of Lar and Jajirud basins and in. the Zayandeh...
Today, every well-read American has heard of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans-second of a long line of books that make life hard for generations of preachers of Anglo-American amity.* Now they will have a chance to read it in the best edition to date, with the original illustrations by France's Auguste Hervieu and copious notes, addenda, and a brief biography of Author Trollope supplied by Editor Donald Arthur Smalley of the University of Illinois...
Domestic Manners of the Americans sold so well both at home and abroad that it established Frances Trollope as a professional writer (she wrote more than 20 novels and books of travels in the remaining 30 years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide...
Nostalgic alumni who want a relic from their undergraduate days can acquire one of Sever Hall's well-carved benches by sending a check for $15 or more to the University...
Many of the Sever boards are over 40 years old and thoroughly hacked up with names, sketches, Yale game scores, and doodles. The Alumni Association offers no suggestions as to what role these benches could play in the well-appointed home...