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...last night boat gave up. Last week, the Manhattan press broke into a wail of nostalgia as the passing of the Day Line was announced. New York's cave dwellers felt a twinge of regret too-until they tried to remember when they had last ridden on a Day Line boat. It had been quite a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last on the River | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...protohumans probably hunted baboons by blocking all but one exit of a baboon cave colony, then clubbing the apes from the side as they ran, the gauntlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fireman | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...district was the Cave of Tzeverdeli, where Politis' comrades stored medical supplies and where, sick or wounded guerrillas were brought from the fighting around Mt. Parnassus. Politis' job was to shuttle battle-ready Communists northward to the mountains, and bring the wounded back for medical attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Toga recovered, left the cave and returned to Athens, where she was picked up by the police. She blabbed the cave's location and police raided it just as Politis, a short distance away in his truck, was signaling to guerillas there with a flashlight. Arrested, Politis threw himself beneath the wheels of a police car and was packed off to the hospital with a mangled left leg. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

After declining steadily for a week, livestock prices hit their lowest point in more than four months. The cave-in loosened the prop under retail prices. Most Eastern food chains promptly slashed as much as 19% off some pork prices, 35% off beef. Stores in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and points west followed suit, in some cases with even bigger slashes. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food price index dropped to its lowest point in 14 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healthy Pessimism | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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