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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David Lilienthal's resignation is not happy for the country. It will be difficult to find any man who can come close to equalling his insight into the problems of the AEC. But David Lilienthal can at least resign knowing that his reputation is clean and his job well done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loss | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...predicted Lazarus, "will show no further drop in employment or production." Federated's Director Paul M. Mazur, a senior partner of Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm, thought that the strikes even held some concealed blessings for business: "They often provide a heaven-sent opportunity to clean up burdensome inventories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Bones Broken | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Lipstick stains on clean white shirts may annoy students, but they are welcomed by local laundries. The cleaning establishments report that the girls well serve the cleaning profession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Careless Love Smudges on Crimson Laundry Reveal Lurid Shirt Tales | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...years, a favorite joke in the West was that the people of Moscow had a clean, sumptuous, artistically constructed subway, admirable in every respect except one: there were no trains. Unlike many other jokes about Soviet Russia, this one contained no grain of truth. The Moscow subway trains run, and they run well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Metro | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Most trains consist of six cars; the first car has a roped-off section for children, invalids and pregnant women. Seats, which run down the side of the cars, are upholstered with brown leather. There is no straphanging: standing passengers hold on to bars. The cars are bright, clean and semi-soundproofed, so that conversation is possible. But there are no wall ads to entertain or annoy the traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Metro | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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