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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ The Federal Works Agency reported that U.S. motorists last year traveled 395 billion miles in their 41 million cars. In Manhattan, Mrs. Emory J. Barnes, president of the Women's City Club, thought that the traffic tangle in New York was stunting the cultural growth of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Last summer, Oliva Paz took time off and went to the U.S. on an official mission to buy cars for top brass. In Washington, he saw President Harry Truman, presented him with a handsome gold encrusted bombilla (the gourd from which maté is drunk) on behalf of Peró...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Open Wide | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

The gross national product-the value of everything made or grown and all work done-rose to $253 billion, 10% above 1947's Himalayan peak. U.S. builders started 1,250,000 houses, 45% more than in any other year. Automakers, working at high speed, brought out a glittering parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The New Frontiers | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

The need for Burke and his amplifier arises from the confluence of an inordinate number of cars, buses, trolley lines and subways in the Square. The loud-speaker idea has received a lot of publicity all over the country, and a man from "Life" has been around to photograph the...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: "Wait for the traffic light, please. . .? | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

Saskatchewan farmers were cautious about taking delivery of cars, trucks and tractors they had ordered when the world wheat famine seemed to assure endless prosperity. Many took delivery simply to resell-and then found that there was little or no profit to be had. At Edmonton fur auctions, ranch mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Flattening the Curves | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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