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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sound Reasoning. In Buffalo, the City Court denied Landlady Anna Kaitz the right to evict Hyman N. Barden because his snoring sounds like "a locomotive pulling freight cars up a grade."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

houses, buy fine cars, keep concubines.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bloodsucking Rice Worms | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Rickety Rails | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Financially, Farmer Barke and the rest of the nation's farmers were in clover. In Fairmont, where Barke does his shopping, merchants reported retail sales up 49% over last year. The Wall Street Journal surveyed nine major agricultural areas, found that farm income for January and February had topped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rain & Weak Pigs | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

And K-F's production of cars had been disappointing. In all, K-F turned out 11,753 cars which it sold for $11,504,443. But production, which was up to 4,089 in November, had dropped back to 3,867 in December (though it was up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Shrunken Kitty | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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