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Republicans, ". . . They have been devoid of new ideas for almost 70 years . . . As to their platform, well, nobody can stand on a bushel of eels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Quotemaster | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Twelve bushel at sixty cents, It's all I carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: POET'S POET | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...Neill is more prolix than profound in handling his melancholy theme. But he has enlivened it with Irish brogue and blague. And even when its dramatic light is half-hidden under a bushel of theatrics, A Moon for the Misbegotten casts a brighter gleam than any new play which the past season brought to Manhattan's Grey White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lament for the Loveless | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...closer now than two or three years ago?" they asked. Replied Stalin: "No." Although no one knew exactly what the exchange meant, commodity prices, which have been slipping, suffered their worst single day's break in weeks; spot prices for grains fell as much as 2⅜% per bushel, cotton futures tumbled as much as $1.75 a bale. At week's end the average of all commodity futures was at its lowest since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Joe's Blow | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

They say that Ike is dynamite on television, and Kefauver can win votes with the shake of a hand, and that Taft and Truman reap ballots by the bushel with their blunt, give-'em-hell type campaigning. But the most important single factor in the November presidential election may be not the popularity of any of the candidates, but the will of the man everybody hates--Joe Stalin...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Who Does Stalin Like? | 3/21/1952 | See Source »

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