Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less Work. Nevertheless, there was little doubt that business was on the downgrade. The Federal Reserve Board's production index, which had stood at around 166% of the 1935-39 average in late June, was estimated to have dropped another five points, off 34 points from 1948's postwar peak. In early July, the Department of Commerce reported, unemployment had edged over the 4,000,000 mark for the first time since 1942. Though there were an estimated 59.7 million at work, more than in any year except 1948, in some areas there were long lines...
...Macon Telegraph (circ. 34,000) had as many readers as the Kudzu Kid's Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000), Publisher Anderson's case for his farm editor would carry more weight. It is nevertheless true that Sue Myrick, born & raised on an oldtime cotton plantation, knows the answers to many Southern questions.* Her pet promotion is soil conservation, and she has done much to popularize the Blue Lupine, as Cope has the Kudzu...
...Holland Music Festival, where Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham & company last week presented her torrid Caribbean Rhapsody. The Dutch had never seen anything quite like her. Dancer Dunham did not wear a pearl in her navel (as she did in Tropical Revue), but some of the audience were nevertheless overcome by all the pelvic commotion, hesitated in bewilderment before applauding. Most of the audience, however, got the idea: they were seeing precise dancing and brilliant choreography. The Dutch critics were two-minded about her. Wrote one: "Mostly it is sheer vitality, but sometimes sheer corn...
Moving on to Washington, Muñoz took up residence in a suite at the Mayflower, which promptly became the scene of an all-night outpouring of liquid Puerto Rican fellowship. Next morning, nevertheless, Muñoz was up bright & early to begin a series of conferences. At noon, natty in a white linen suit, he called at the White House, emerged after half an hour to report that he had offered President Truman the use of Puerto Rico as a laboratory for experiments in Point 4 aid to undeveloped areas. In succeeding days, Muñoz had long talks...
...University of Alaska will be a harder problem. Since its founding in 1922, it has been battling an annual invasion of summer mosquitoes, sub-zero winter temperatures and a chronic shortage of money. Nevertheless, with Founder Bunnell pushing determinedly ahead, the university has grown until it now has 698 part-and full-time students and a 42-man faculty. It has become a center for Arctic research, a training ground for mining engineers, a clearinghouse of information for farmers and prospectors...