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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because news is a perishable commodity, TLI takes pride in the knowledge that most of these 260,000 copies of TIME were being read while U.S. citizens were reading the same issue. The story behind this accomplishment might very well begin with an Indian Maharaja who, in 1941, was paying $585.60 a year airmail charges to have TIME flown to him. At that time only 26,000 copies of TIME were going (by surface mail) to the world outside continental North America. There were many requests for faster delivery overseas, but the best air-delivered price we could...
Advocate & Executor. But he remained loyal to Roosevelt. Acheson was one of the torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
...over two dollars, becomes one of many "number 125" at the base of the pyramid. The next night he becomes a "number 11" and must bring two new members, each with two dollars, to keep the organization intact. On each subsequent night, as new members multiply and form pyramids behind them, he is pushed toward the peak of his pyramid, until on the 12th night he becomes a number i and theoretically receives...
...Communists continued their crusade against religion behind the Iron Curtain...
Kremlin's Reward. No one was sure what Anna Louise Strong had done to get this stunning blow. It might be that the party line, which she had followed faithfully for so long, had left her behind somewhere in one of its sudden sharp turns. She might have swallowed her own propaganda, in which she had frequently explained that various Communist parties were simply national patriotic movements; as of the winter of 1948, that was known in Moscow as the "nationalist heresy." Whatever her offense,the Kremlin had in its own way rewarded Anna Louise Strong for a lifetime...