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...pretty well evaporated. Well covered by photographers, he dashed off autographs for a swarm, of half-clad Sapulpan moppets, who descended on the home of Mrs. Dewey's parents (see cut). Polishing up his grass-roots tactics, he stopped to admire a local farmer's improvised hay bale loader, commented knowingly that it was just what he needed on his own Pawling, N.Y. farm. By the time the Deweys moved on to Kansas City, Tom Dewey was in high gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Calculated Risk | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average at $4.70 and guaranteed to keep it there until the end of the year. With this artificially high floor under silk and with good quality Nylon available at $2.55 a pound, high-priced silk has gone begging. U.S.C.C. has imported some 86,000 bales, sold only 30,000. And Japan's 72,000-bale surplus is being increased by 5,000 bales a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Back in Business | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Later in the day Queen Elizabeth scored a personal triumph when she sampled a Paarl housewife's Dutch milk tart. "Ah," said the Queen in Afrikaans, "dis bale goed" (this is very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Dis Baie Goed | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Walton, Ind., two boys, one ten years old, the other twelve, admitted that they had rolled a 175-lb. bale of fence wire onto the Pennsylvania R.R. track "to see what would happen." What happened: five coaches derailed, four killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Cotton, already down $35 a bale from its postwar peak, dropped as much as $7 more (from 32.86? a pound to 31.45?). Amid the growing abundance of dairy products, wholesale butter fell as much as 7 ½? a pound in one day. In the New York area, the price of milk was reduced 44? a hundredweight by the Department of Agriculture, about a cent a quart, and pegged there to keep it from going lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down, Down, Down | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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