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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next ten years, AEC expects to spend some $500,000.000-an amount roughly equal to the entire assessed value of the state. The Arco station will become the chief testing ground for the industrial development of atomic energy, including such projects as ship and aircraft propulsion by atomic power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: The Atom Comes to Town | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount of determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubled Opera | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Basement Bedlam | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Although the new margin rule, in effect tripled the amount of borrowed money which could be used to buy stocks,* it did not bring many new customers into the market. Most of the stepped-up business was done by seasoned traders who were merely using their additional credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Two-Day Wonder | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...subsidize U.S. airlines? Nobody knows for sure, but last week Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., chairman of CAB, told the New York City Bar Association that CAB soon hopes to find out. CAB expects to break down the Government payments to airlines into outright subsidies and the amount airlines have earned carrying the mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Cheaper than Potatoes | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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