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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...downtown intersection in Bremerton, across Puget Sound, when he appeared there. The crowd yelled, "Lay it on, Harry!" as he renewed his rawhiding of Congress. He cried: "They are going down to Philadelphia to tell you what a great Congress they have been. If you believe that, you are bigger suckers than I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Varied Adventures in the West | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...lamentable fact overlooked by Trud: when reports of Franklin's experiment reached Russia, Russian Scientist Georgy V. Richwan lofted a bigger, more aggressive kite and electrocuted himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Electrified Age | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...Pilot Radio last week unwrapped the first television set to sell for less than $100. But as the price tag grew smaller ($99.50), the set shrank in proportion: the new model has a squinty screen no bigger (2 in. by 3 in.) than a ten of spades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Busy Air | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...public doesn't come in, according to an old Wall Street saw, "until its avarice grows stronger than its fear." Even though the U.S. economy is bigger and richer than ever before, the investing-speculating public is dogged by fears of international crises, labor-management strife and lower profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bull Market | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Author Kendrick, a well-known whodunit writer (Blind Man's Bluff), now apparently setting out for bigger game, has bagged it. This cliché-clogged historical novel is the July choice of the Literary Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comes July | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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