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They accused Frédéric Dupont, a Paris city councilor for 13 years, of "intelligence with the enemy" during the occupation. Rightists answered that such an accusation should be heard in a court of law, not in the legislature. The Reds promptly let go with shrill invective. Pierre...
Other metals were already up. Platinum prices doubled. Zinc went up 1¼? to 9½? a pound. Copper, tied in with OPA subsidies, waited on Washington developments. But the best guess was that low-cost copper producers would continue to sell at the OPA ceiling of 14⅜? a...
Their hopes were high: Protestant church attendance has already doubled since V-J day. Their plans were ambitious: a three-year evangelical program, in which 1,000-odd ministers and lay preachers will be expected to gain 3,000,000 converts.*To rebuild the 500 Protestant churches destroyed by American...
Trafalgar Traveler. In Chatham, England, sentries at ancient St. Mary's Naval Barracks asked that the midnight watch be doubled, complained of being bothered nightly by a one-legged mariner of Lord Nelson's era.
Significantly, in a recent study called 40 Years of Going to College, we found that in half a generation the number of formally educated people in America had doubled. Although the U.S. population had increased only 43% since 1910, managers were up 91%, salaried professionals 126%, technicians 226%, etc. What...