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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a continuation of the little purge, carried on while Mother Russia staged a big purge (TIME, Sept. 2). But within Communist circles it was far bigger news than the recent excommunication of Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney et al. Tough, wide-chested, hard-drinking Bill Dunne, the "Wild Bull from Montana," had come into the Party by way of the I.W.W. He had led striking copper miners in Butte, textile workers in Passaic, coal miners in West Virginia. During the '20s he had plotted with William Z. Foster and Earl Browder to dominate U.S. Communists. In nearly...
Last week the bigger problem, economic unification of Europe, came before the U.N. Russia, interested in delaying peace rather than in promoting it, promptly balked. The issue was raised by U.N.'s Economic & Social Council in an awesome, 450-page report on Europe's economy. Recommended: integration of Europe's economy under an all-European Economic Commission (in effect, an economic United States of Europe). Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov denounced the plan as "not very desirable to Russia," implied that it was a capitalist plot "to make good profits...
After six years of newsprint famine, the British press were finally getting a bigger ration.* Supplies were now sufficient to allow standard-size, four-page papers to add six pages a week. And to let circulations find their "natural levels," the Government last week lifted ceilings. The press lords were free to print as many copies as they could sell-but free insurance and other come-ons were...
Said Coach Harlow amid the cheers of the crowd: "This Tuft's team is bigger than we are, heavier than we are, but these kids will be in there fighting all the way." Backfield Coach Hank Margarita then took over the program and introduced the members of the team who came out one by one and agreed unanimously that tomorrow's game would end in a victory for the Crimson...
With its new outside capital the company will redeem $5,150,000 worth of outstanding preferred stock. The balance it will probably use to build bigger plants, market new varieties. Prospective investors, getting their first look inside the Heinz door, saw an appetizing sight. Last week Heinz reported that sales for the year ending last April 30 were $114,150,564. Net profit, $4,052,084, one of the best in the company's history...