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Double Take. In Guttenberg, Iowa, Fisherman Eldon Saeuging disappointedly found an old 4O-qt. cream can on the end of his line, happily discovered inside it a 34-lb. catfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...education program. He is co-author with New Dealing Senator Lister Hill and Elbert Thomas of a bill to guarantee at least a $4O-per-annum expenditure per child in every state. (Some states now put out as little as $7.) ¶A voluntary health-insurance bill. He is dead set against compulsory insurance, which he considers socialized medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Age of Taft | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...union needs a 30% pay rise to keep take-home pay for a 4O-hour peacetime week as high as it was in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Titans' Tempers | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Three days after the battle's beginning, picked U.S. bombardiers blew a 4O-ft. hole in the Avisio rail viaduct on the Brenner Pass line. Presumably the 75 daily trainloads of supplies which the Nazis had been sending into Italy over this key route would be stopped, at least temporarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: To Destroy the German Armies | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Before things changed, the men of the 99th had traveled a long, hard road. Training for the all-Negro squadron had started back in July 1941. The program was experimental, and suffered accordingly; there were slights, snubs and delays. The men did their operational training in P-4O Warhawks, were finally organized as a squadron 18 months ago. They went to Africa last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Sweet Victories | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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