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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return-today. Meanwhile the U.S. could smack the enemy's homeland with atom bombs within 48 hours, order the Navy and Marines into action to seize advance bases from which to mount an aerial attack while the job of rebuilding the nation's war potential was begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Balance | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...years of U.S. ownership. A frontier society-easygoing, vigorous, elementally democratic-at its worst unabashedly bad, at its best unaffectedly generous. Opportunity-but at the price of a stiff endurance test. And to beckon the pioneers on, for good or ill, the deceptive promise of an economic boom (begun by the war, protracted by the proximity of Asiatic Russia), and the deceptive intensity of the brief Alaskan summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...thousands of obliging salmon ran in Alaska's larch-green coastal waters. The Arctic ice pack would soon move sullenly offshore. The sun stayed in the skies at night, and green things burst into leaf and blossom with hothouse frenzy. Alaska's short, violent summer had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Farm to Market. The Colonel rises at 9 a.m. in his 35-room Georgian mansion (begun by grandfather Joe Medill the year Bertie was born) at Cantigny,* his 1,000-acre farm near Wheaton, Ill. Over a frugal breakfast of coffee and juice, he scans the Trib's fat, one-star final and Marshall Field's skinnier Sun, tearing out clippings. He scribbles swift notes on them and stuffs them into his pocket for delivery to his editors. For an hour he strolls Cantigny's gardens and rolling fields (now mostly idle). He has given up riding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Century | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...turning point had been reached. In April, said the Department of Commerce, "the uninterrupted [business] expansion of more than a year was halted." The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted "several soft spots which will bear watching." Employment had begun to fall off slightly in the consumer soft-goods industries. Construction, which had been relied on to take up the slack, was one-sixth less in March than it had been in 1946. For the third consecutive month, new construction was under the corresponding 1946 figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soft Spots | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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