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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refusals, Congress often showed better sense than Harry Truman in his requests, and sometimes it saved him later embarrassment. When he asked for an anti-inflation program (including wage & price controls, Government authority to build steel plants) at a time when deflation was obviously in progress, Congress brusquely threw it overboard, lock, stock & barrel. His demand for $4 billion in new taxes was similarly ignored; so was his request for $800 million for universal military training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...fond hope of the Deposit Library was to build up a collection of its own from duplicates of books which were deposited by more than one member institution. The collection as present consists of "The Book of Business Etiquette," "The American Government Today," and a couple of dictionaries. Rapid growth is not expected in the near future...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...Department is glad to offer its services free of charge. "Not only do our investigations sometimes aid the police, but they also build up our own teaching material," says Dr. Richard Ford, assistant professor of pathology and acting head of the Department...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Legal Medicine Probes Deaths, Gets Results | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

Bulldozers & Textiles. Persia will build or renovate 7,122 miles of roads, buying bulldozers, dump trucks, motor graders and portable rock crushers. Later, she will be in the market for other communications equipment, 18 diesel locomotives, 30 passenger cars, $2,250,000 worth of switch stands, signals and rails. She plans to set up modern, automatic telephone systems in 14 towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN DEVELOPMENT: A Plan for the King of Kings | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...above the average tonsorial parlor. It is difficult to compare two places of trade when the primary function of both is to trim one's hair. Maybe it is the clientele one place caters to, its general appearance, or its atmosphere, which enables it to build up a distinctive reputation. But a most unimposing barber shop which keeps in business, and very much so, for 50 years, must have some unique attraction...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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