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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choicest: Miami's razzle-dazzle Roney Plaza and, 40 miles up the Florida coast, the ultra-plush Boca Raton Club. Other Schine properties: Miami's McAllister, Albany's Ten Eyck, Atlantic City's Ritz-Carlton, the Breakwater Court at Kennebunkport, Me., the Northampton Hotel and Wiggins Old Tavern at Northampton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Mr. Schine Goes West | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Coupled with the customary reservation of the three choicest sections of the theatre for regular Symphony Hall subscribers, the established practice of giving members of the faculty first claim on the six hundred tickets allotted to the University, leaves students a scant eighty-two "rush" seats for each of the year's six concerts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conccrio for Faculty and Orchestra | 10/17/1946 | See Source »

...Sowjetische Industrie A.G. (Soviet Industrial Corp., and owned 51% by the Russian state and 49% by Germans), the enterprise has an official capital of over eight billion marks ($800,000,000). Its real value is estimated at twice that sum. It employs nearly 400,000 workers and embraces the choicest 30% of all German industry in the Soviet zone, including I.G. Farben. Russian reparation seizures and forced nationalization already took care of other large chunks. Economic pharaoh of this pyramid of 13 trusts was one Alexei Resnikov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: New Titan | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...nation's Rotarians and Grand Commanders sweated through the first oratorical field day in five years, the choicest paeans were reserved for the newly-created Philippine Republic and the American colonial policy that sanctioned its independence. But as Washington lays down the white man's burden, and as Congress examines our colonial past in the light of its new halo, this same body might do well to review the legislation that has put the Roxas government on its own. This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philippine Fadeout | 7/5/1946 | See Source »

...staged by Hudson's Bay Inspector L. A. Learmonth with the aid of the wife of the Anglican missionary at Coppermine. The missionary's adopted daughter Ann posed prettily in white fox, with a rabbit cap (see cut). Eskimos Paulette and Doris draped themselves in choicest red and silver foxes from the spring catch, chose identical wolverine caps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Arctic Fashion Show | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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