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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Illinois' Freshman Paul Douglas led a band of Northern and Eastern Senators in the attack. Said Douglas: "So great is the demand for natural gas . . . that pipelines are being laid frantically down into the Southwest. In the past two years more than 18,000 miles of pipeline have been authorized. Natural gas will shortly pour into the North Atlantic and New England states and into the states of the South Atlantic and Middle West. It is a seller's market and the big gas and oilmen are riding high...
...Then these three countries, helping each other, conscious of their future united greatness, forgetting ancient feuds and the horrible deeds and tragedies of the past, can make the core or the nucleus upon which all the other civilized democracies of Europe, bond or free, can one day rally and combine ... I see no reason why British, American, French and German soldiers should not stand in line together on honorable terms of comradeship . . . The grand design of Charlemagne must be re-adapted to modern conditions...
Working Farm. To Bombay Supplies Minister, Dinkerrao Desai, the slaughter and the filthy, foolish dairy methods are horrifying. For the past two years he has directed the building of a huge modern dairy farm on the outskirts of Bombay. Just north of the city limits, Desai bought 3,500 acres of palm-covered hills at a place called Aarey (rhymes with starry). There, he has built seven self-sufficient dairy-farm units with airy, concrete stables, with scrubbed floors, neat feed bins and washing ponds filled with clear water. Hills have been leveled for grazing lands. The units now have...
Until recently only three painters rated special rooms in Paris' National Museum of Modern Art. They were Matisse, Braque and Picasso. Last week 60-year-old, Russian-born Marc Chagall had his own room too, filled with the strange gravity-defying pictures he has been painting for the past 40 years...
...critics of big chains Ling Warren has a ready answer: mass-buying by large chains in the past half-century has reduced the housewife's food bill by 50%, mainly by cutting out middlemen's charges. Says Warren: "The oldtime cor ner grocer was usually the underprivileged slave of intermediary dealers...