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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crafty chimpanzee he was trying to photograph. Eileen Darby, who took the pictures at the St. Louis zoo, underwent an encounter with an orangutan named Henry that is still keeping her awake nights. She had to get within reach for a close-up shot, and Henry, a friendly sort, put an arm around her. When he put the other arm around her and started to wrestle, she looked anxiously at the keeper and asked: "Don't you think he's getting a bit rough...
Franco hoped to lure monarchists, who form his strongest opposition, into the Government camp. He had used the trick successfully before to divide his enemies; his maneuver amounted to a promise that the monarchists could eventually have the sort of regime they want, if they will support him, as a bulwark against Communism, in his lifetime...
Sweet Plan. Free trading in sugar futures was resumed last week after 5½ years of rigid controls. As traders gathered around the ring in the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, the House Agriculture Committee approved a new set of controls-but of a very different sort. With a world sugar surplus in the offing, the bill will extend for five years the present sales quota system for all foreign and domestic producers. The bill, which Congress is expected to pass this session, ties the sugar price to the cost of living. As long as the cost-of-living stays...
...soul, seeks to create in this medium a flower more alive than the ephemeral real thing. The plot traces his wanderings in a fairy kingdom, and the effects of his dream on his everyday life. The wildly beautiful technicolor ("filmed," the program confides, "by a secret process") breathes a sort of glory into the most mundane developments in the story...
...pointed out, however, that there were stockholders who had received no dividends for a number of years, and that some sort of balance would have to be reached between them and the students...