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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greater exports than ever before (even by restricting home consumption), since Britain has had to sell the great bulk of her foreign investments, which formerly paid for a large part of her imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The British Take the Lead | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Barr Jr.-who retired last January (his successor has not been appointed). At its opening show (November 1929) the hand counters rang up the first 50,000 of what have since become some 3,400,000 admissions. When "Lillie" Bliss died about a year later she left the bulk of her collection to the Museum-with the canny proviso that the directors raise $750,000. They did. Last year admission fees plus other income paid about 40% of Museum expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Public Utility | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Most illuminating are the shots made under the direction of brilliant, free-lance New Zealander Len Lye (Kill or Be Killed, Colour Box), which make up the bulk of the film. Lye's Dublin streets, obsessed faces and magical landscapes (made largely in bleak Galway) capture depths of mysticism which are beyond the reach of most words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...that we are on our own the greatest bulk of the Yearbook work falls upon our case-burdened frames. More candid photos are needed if we are to approach be volume of work along this line that he Juniors have done. Get out those cameras and start shooting. Shoot anything from Profs' noses to dissipated roommates...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/26/1944 | See Source »

...supporter and confidante to whom Ubico undoubtedly looked for comfort was a remarkable woman named Julita Quiñones. Officially, she is at the head of a Government bureau in charge of meals and supplies for public schools. Actually, she wields power in scale with her bulk (Guatemalans swear that she is 6 ft. 7 in. tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: La Maciste | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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