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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pere de Famille | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

The biggest obstacle to this sensible plan was home-town pride. Detroit refused to join, and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pittsburgh have not yet decided whether to come in. But brokers in the other cities liked the idea. Instead of trading in only 14 stocks-as on the Minneapolis Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: 4 Into 1 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the hair of both twins had been styled and set by a professional hairdresser, after one had given herself a home wave. Chicago's Toni Co., maker of home permanent wave kits, will restyle its advertising to say so.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Twins | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Up before a House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Giants | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

While the Federal Trade Commission was serving up the facts on big business (see above), a Cleveland businessman last week provided a pamphlet case history on why his Allied Oil Co. was swallowed up by a bigger company.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Swallowed Up | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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