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...European industry creaks back to life, lack of raw materials is a brake on production. All industries are short of steel, coal, chemicals, rubber, textiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Europe's Recovery | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...laurel, the palms and the paean, the breasts of the nymphs in the brake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Art's Sake | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Mohandas K. Gandhi, 75, revealed the formula by which he plans to live for another 50 years: plenty of humor, a balanced diet, early to bed & early to rise, no stimulants, "a brake upon impetuosity," resignation to the will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Over the Oder? Of such incidents, of such weight and urgency was the massive Red Army offensive last week. The Russians swept forward with an impetus which no losses, no barriers had been able to brake. By this week it seemed that its momentum could not be slowed short of the banks of the Oder (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: Weight & Urgency | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...armies-the prompt defeat of Germany. In the liberated countries there have been Communistic and British interference and clashing which affect military operations. ... It was expected from the attitude of Marshal Stalin a year ago that he would cooperate. . . . [Now] Communistic activities would indicate that no effective brake has been applied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Irascible Critic | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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