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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might yet turn out that his head-on tactics would bring the warring services together where James Forrestal's patient indecision had failed. But an end to service rivalries could never be reached by decree alone. With the Navy in open revolt last week, it was plainer than ever that real unification was also a state of mind: the services had to be convinced, not just told. By that definition, Louis Johnson's job had just begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...University could conceivably bring a civil action to get back the money it lost, by attaching the King's salary from Collier's. More than 30 years' interest added to the $678.67 might make it worth a try. Maybe endow a small chair in Criminology...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

General Electric Co. shaved $10 off the price of its upright vacuum cleaner (new price: $44.95) by such changes as a wood-and-metal for an all-metal handle. G.E. was about to bring out a new dishwasher that would not require permanent plumbing fixtures, thus abolishing installation costs running to $125 on current models. G.E. had also eliminated a soaking gadget on a new-model automatic washing machine, thereby saving the buyer $70 (price: $299.50). After two years of experiments and a $2,500,000 outlay for development, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. introduced a completely new automatic washing machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Stripping for Action | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Woman's Story (Rank; Universal-International) has been told often and better by Hollywood. In this ill-advised British-made version, the glamorous, irresolute heroine (Ann Todd) decides to marry wealth and security (Claude Rains), but she cannot bring herself to let go of romance (Trevor Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Hearth & Home. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Mrs. Irene Wells explained to authorities why she had allowed her bigamous husband to bring his 15-year-old "bride" into their house: "I didn't think it would last." In Toledo, a housewife tried to explain her motive for clouting her husband over he head: "I was frying eggs and all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I hit my husband with the skillet . . ." In Hollywood, Beverly Mitchell got a divorce after she charged that her husband left her alone with the company and went off to his room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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