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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symbol on a Hill. General Sheetz and his staff, who are now engaged in the first organized effort in four years to cope with Okinawa's problems, are recruiting a force of 60 to 80 planners to act as a kind of junior SCAP for Okinawa. At Naha, where in May 1945 U.S. forces encountered some of the invasion's stiffest Japanese resistance, U.S. engineers are busy with plans to rebuild the battered port, talk of a new one capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Forgotten Island | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Cathy O'Donnell) hopelessly try to filter through a police dragnet. As their flight zigzags through central Texas, they get their first good view of the world and their first happiness in it. Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...report, a day-to-day record of the recent experience of the firm, is a detailed history of its dealings with its employees throughout the years of the depression, the National Recovery Act, the rise of individual unions in the United States, and World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School Gets History Of Firm's Labor Relations | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Representative Melvin Price (D-Ill.) told the CRIMSON yesterday that "it is very difficult to get Congress to pass a draft act during peacetime. It was very difficult to get the present law passed two years ago, and it will be impossible now that there is no need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft Will Die in June, House Leaders Declare | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...current law expires on June 24, two days after the College's graduation exercises. According to the act, students could legally be conscripted during those two days, but Price predicts that "there will be no more drafting unless the international situation gets very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft Will Die in June, House Leaders Declare | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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