Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moines with 3,000 farmers, labor leaders and party bosses from 16 Midwestern states, whooping up the Brannan farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future on it and knew it. Said...
Some international crises get into the headlines and some, no less real, hang quietly and ominously in the air. One of the quiet sort is now building up. Until a few months ago Britain's recovery was one of the most hopeful signs in the world picture. In April, British exports to the U.S. dropped 38% below March, widening the famous "gap" between what Britain has to pay out for dollar imports and what she can sell for dollars...
...current edition is a "war to peace" revision of the 1940 edition. Over 10,000 postcards went out last fall requesting address changes, and by April 35,000 had been returned. 7645 postcards have been due since 1940, and the Directory lists these 7645 men as "lost" alumni...
...rotten underside of the fight racket; with Robert Ryan on the receiving end (TIME, April...
Champion. Kirk Douglas as a Ring Lardner pug; a portrait with a punch (TIME, April...