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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Protestant leaders and groups sided with the Lutherans. In Nashville, Tenn., the 20th annual convention of Southern Baptist colleges and schools passed a resolution deploring "this unwarranted criticism" and officially regretting the action of the "distinguished American churchman." In Boston, the American Unitarian Association cited its record of opposition to "any legislation that would compromise the traditional principle of church and state," and to any groups "who would try to secure public money . . . for their private institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Echoes | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Havilland has orders for 14 Comets from British Overseas Airways Corp. and British South American Airways Corp but it does not expect to see any of them in actual passenger service for two or three years. Like all new aircraft, the plane must undergo elaborate flight tests. But De Havilland claims to have licked one great problem: noise. The scream of the jet engines is for innocent bystanders only; it is hardly heard on board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Screaming Challenge | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Whipped, bedraggled Willy Loman is well on his way, it appears, to becoming as much a British as an American celebrity. Theatergoing Londoners last week welcomed Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prizewining Death of a Salesman with raves and flourishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Grand Slam | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...billion. And despite the increase in unemployment, the rate of personal income was still running above 1948. Some businessmen began to feel almost as cheerful as General Mills's Chairman Harry A. Bullis, who said last week: "We are on our way towards a soundly priced American prosperity that can be sustained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Way? | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Caught between an irresistible force and an immovable object, the American Woolen Co. has long had a squeezed feeling. Irresistible force: the demand of consumers, retailers and clothing manufacturers for lower prices. Immovable object: the sky-high postwar price of Australian fleece, up some 120% since 1939 (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeeze | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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