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Other facts & figures showed the difficulties under which the nations labored, trying to keep their populations alive. From a prewar base period, when the world fared moderately well, China's farm draft power (horses, tractors, etc.) had dropped 20%; Italy's, 26%; Austria's, 40%; Yugoslavia'...
This poetry of despair sprang from the depths of serfdom, in lands where the soil is hard, the sun is cold, and foreign masters have always been harder and colder than either. For centuries, Baltic peasants have labored for their feudal lords-Swedes, Russians, Poles, Germans. Today, the Baltic peasant...
Another $100,000 fell between two plump divorcees named Mary Markovich and Anna Osojnak while they labored in a Manhattan automat. Straightway, they began to weep and dream of freedom and fur coats.
Printemps'), . . . The divagations from Stravinsky . . . are not of creative significance." Said the entranced World-Telegram: "He [Messiaen] seems to stand before a shrine, chanting the vision he beholds ... a sort of fluttering commotion spread over the music." Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, who has labored to...
Unable to reach their jobs, thousands milled in the streets. A lively business sprang up: for 15 piastres (60?) a guide would show a chink in the wall of soldiers and a way out of Tel Aviv. British troops made widespread searches for terrorists, collared many in Tel Aviv and...