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...Labor's vague mismanagement. But by Attlee's own estimate, it could only carry Britain through the winter to face another, even bigger crisis in 1948. At that time, many observers believed, Britain would have to tap her last gold reserves and thus stand on the brink of national ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On the Brink | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Angeles, sharp-tongued Mrs. Jesse Brink stormed into a county welfare office, threatened to go back to Oklahoma with her husband and nine of her eleven children because the family relief check had been cut from $278 to $126. "Only rats could live on that," she cried. "It won't pay for our gasoline." Last week, after five years in California, the startled Brinks found themselves rolling eastward. California authorities had not only taken Mrs. Brink's dare but had bought four new tires ($125) for their 1931 La Salle sedan and had deposited expense checks ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...chip in a current and there is no paddling against the stream even if I knew where I wanted to go." Said Thomas Whithorn, of Georgia Tech: "I'm disgusted. Our leaders have let us down." Said Hadon Boswell, of Western Reserve: "Everything seems to be on the brink of destruction. I feel I should be doing something but I don't know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Class of '47 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Well might Nehru and Kripalani look solemn. As India seemed to teeter on the brink of bloodshed, they were returning to New Delhi, to face the Congress organization's toughest problem: to accept or reject the British version of how the Constituent Assembly should be run (TIME, Dec. 16). With Nehru and Kripalani went Gandhi's blessing and ad vice. They would not say whether the Mahatma had recommended concessions that might win Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League to Assembly participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Reprieve from Disaster | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...good to read your editorial in the November 20 Crimson, decrying student and Faculty apathy on the subject of Harvard's faltering tutorial system. As was cited last year in a Student Council report, this apathy is perhaps the major reason why tutorial has come near the brink of oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHCN Schedules Serenade | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

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