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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drain has only begun. The veterans of World War II may ultimately number 16,000,000. World War II's huge omnibus program made all former veterans legislation look like nickel jitney rides. Deeply aware of their obligations, nevertheless U.S. taxpayers had reason to feel misgivings, as the nation embarked on the most far-reaching veterans program in history. How long, it might well ask itself, does a war last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Old Soldiers' Soldier | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Ottawa last week Pat Conroy, secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Congress of Labor, made a prediction: at least 200,000 members of the C.C.L. unions will be involved in campaigns for wage increases "within the next two months." Before he spoke, the roar had already begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Rumblings | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...airport, rose easily over the Plata estuary, and shrank into the east. A good turnout of proud British clapped politely. Regular biweekly service from Argentina to London (via Montevideo, Rio, Natal, Bathurst, Lisbon), by the soon-to-be-nationalized British South American Airways (B.S.A.A.), had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The British Are Coming | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Surgeon de Souza cleansed the nose, pared the edges, which had already begun to wither, made a circular cut in the patient's abdomen, buried the nose under four layers of tissue, then sewed up the incision. To Rio newsmen he explained that: 1) stomach tissues would provide better nourishment; 2) if the nose had become contaminated, it was easier to fight infection in the abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: As Plain As . . . | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...action taken so far so house veterans and their wives have been relatively ineffectual, especially when compared with the steps taken by M.I.T. to solve its housing problems Whereas Tech has already constructed a large number of low-cost, durable bungalows, the University has so far only begun to set up 33 housing units, which have been allotted from a surplus declared by Congress, with room for about 200 families. These units were given a four-year life-expectancy by the workmen setting them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progressive Flays Housing Program | 3/29/1946 | See Source »

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