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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next afternoon, unshaven and dressed in rags, I joined some 30 shabbily dressed Paraguayans in the unpaved street before Asuncion's decaying prison close by the river front. An old man carrying a package of medicines for his son got me past the swarthy Indian guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Prisoners | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Canada's industrial mobilization, the standardization of U.S. and Canadian arms, what to do about U.S. bases in Newfoundland when the "Oldest Colony" becomes the newest province. No hard & fast detailed decisions were made; the idea of the meeting was to keep defense cooperation firmly based on close, human relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Time for Talk | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...with a blinding glare-the signal to the audience that the show is over. One night next week when the lights blaze, about 12,000 Municipal Opera fans will rise to 'their feet and roar out Auld Lang Syne with the cast, as they have regularly at the close of St. Louis' summer operetta seasons since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: St. Louis Habit | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Since all the plot activity centers around a refrigerator, a range and a home freezer (all Kelvinators), it amounts to a straight 15-minute plug. The barker in Texaco Star Theater continually fondles Texaco products, performs before a curtain picturing a Texaco gas station, and is supported by a close-harmony quartet wearing Texaco uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sponsors' World | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Memphis had waited a long time for the Keedoozle, Clarence Saunders' electrically operated grocery. He first announced it twelve years ago (TIME, July 6, 1936). Twice he had opened up, only to close when wires got crossed and customers got the wrong goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Keedoozle | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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