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The average Briton would raise no flag on Vesting Day. As he woke in his frigid bedroom, shaved in icy water and ate a cold breakfast without the cheering "hot cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vesting Day | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Colorado's Land Board bought newspaper advertisements to admit that it planned to circumvent the law. It was scheming to sell five acres of state-owned land in Mountair, a Denver suburb, to a favored buyer at a fixed price-and it did not want the public to queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Ill Wind In Denver | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Bugs & Bandits. The Latin Americans, by their own behavior, were slowly disposing of an old Yankee prejudice: that South America is a land of bugs, bandits and bloody revolution. True, revolts still occur; Latin America had four major ones in 1945, but no U.S. citizen was killed in them. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Playtime | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Caesar landed where Deal now drowses and William the Conqueror made good his bid at Hastings. just beyond the Sussex line. Much later the furtive wink of smugglers' lamps enlivened coastal life, put money in the pockets of those who cared to lend a hand to circumvent the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Now That Spring Is Here | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Bill Jack loves to grab the public address microphone in his Cleveland plant and bellow important news to his "associates" (employes). Last week the president of Barnumesque Jack & Heintz (Jahco), who contends that the War Department is renegotiating him into the red, told them something that hit home to each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jahco Finds a Way | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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