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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is typical of a problem that is popping up all over the country, for publicly owned electric power plants are rapidly increasing in number and coming into confict with existing systems. Some consider this "the welcome hand of a Fair Deal"; others call it "specter of socialism." But all agree that Government's role in electricity production is expanding so greatly that it is taking over a new role in the economy...

Author: By Edward J. Shack, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

Photographers and cartoonists will be especially welcome at 7:30 p.m. tonight when the second call goes out for competitors in the CRIMSON'S post-Yale game four-board tryouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welcome Mat Still out for Late-Comers to Crime Comps | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...past four years, poor, typhoon-swept Okinawa has dangled at what bitter Army men call "the logistical end of the line," and some of its commanders have been lax and inefficient. More than 15,000 U.S. troops, whose morale and discipline have probably been worse than that of any U.S. force in the world, have policed 600,000 natives who live in hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Forgotten Island | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...fierce or provoking, it would be hard to reckon; but under its enthrallment, the camera comes into play . . . The unseen zither-player ... is made to employ his instrument much as the Homeric bard did his lyre." Said Alan Dent in the Illustrated London News: "The real hero I should call the unseen zither-player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zither Dither | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...This is a call to action," said Dr. Truman B. Douglass, executive vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches, in the Woman's Home Companion. "The penalty for failure is greater than any Christian would like to contemplate. The time may come-it has already come in many communities-when millions of Christians actually will have no churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now Is the Time | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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