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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pinch might come again, for a time. Alfred Emanuel Lyon, president of Philip Morris, who had rightly predicted that the shortage would begin to ease a month after V-E day (TIME, March 26), warned that some of the increased supply to civilians might be cut again by further Army demands for the Pacific...
...ball will be holed when & if Russia. Britain, the U.S. and a respectable variety of Poles agree on a new Warsaw government. Invited to Moscow to begin new discussions this week were: ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, a key figure in any settlement, and two other London exiles (but no member of the unreconstructible exiled Government); Warsaw President Boleslaw Bierut and three members of his Government; five non-Government Poles from Poland. With the Russians, these men would try to find agreement among themselves, then submit the result to the Big Three's troubleshooters (Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, British...
Fads & Phases. Non-fiction was notably unpopular during the years between 1895 and 1911. Only with the publication of Wells's Outline in 1921 did factual books of general or topical interest begin to rival romance and adventure. But topicality, whether in fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best...
After the signing, the four-power Allied Control Council was in formal existence, and its over-all plan for the control of Germany was released to the world. But not much had happened: the Council did not even begin to function, and some sections of the plan, written when the occupation was more of a prospect than a fact, already seemed out-of-date...
...Russians clearly were not ready to begin cooperative control in their area, and as usual their way of saying so irritated the other occupiers. But the representatives of the western powers on the whole felt better rather than worse after the first meeting. Marshal Zhukov showed them every courtesy in Berlin, visited (and decorated) General Eisenhower at Frankfurt five days later. Some of the U.S. officials got the impression that a grievous lack of administrative personnel and preparation, rather than a deliberate secretiveness, accounted at least in part for the Soviet reluctance to admit U.S. and British representatives...