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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history. The wheat output was expected to reach 1,132,075,000 bushels, 42 million more than the July 1 estimate, some nine million more than last year's all-time high. Granted a good soaking rain in the corn belt within a fortnight, corn production would also break records; the Department of Agriculture's estimate last week was 3,487,976,000 bushels, some 250 million better than the previous high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Famine's End? | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Here, however, is a golden opportunity to make the break with tradition. But because of the staggering French taxation, which must be largely allocated for food and defense, it seems logical to expect that some of the financial burden of reconstruction must fall on countries, such as the United States, who can pay and who should feel partly obligated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

...blessing in disguise. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the heaviest action against the Communists is on the front of labor. We Conservatives are necessarily relegated to the sidelines." As to the great recessional of empire, all parties knew it had to come-but only the Laborites were able to break with the past and actually give up India and Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dull Year of Hope | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...during the campaign. Bayar and Cakmak demand increased liberties and social legislation, but support the Government policy of resistance to Russian territorial demands. Their showing in this week's election is expected to encourage other leaders of Inönä's People's Party to break away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Toward Democracy | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Almost anyone else would have chosen another time to call on the president of the Bank of Guatemala. Guatemala had that very day threatened to break relations with Britain, which had declined to cede tiny, neighboring, contested British Honduras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: British Interests | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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