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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern prospectors who take to the hills in search of uranium need fancier equipment than the oldtime pick, shovel and burro. They also need a new kind of knowledge. To help uranium prospectors, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Geological Survey last week issued a handbook, written in simple language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out Where the Click Is Louder | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Finally, this spring, Fredericks was ready with a one-twelfth scale model of his design: the nude figure of a young man, with one arm stretched upward. Seltzer, who keeps the Scripps-Howard Press a proper "family newspaper," was not perturbed at the statue's absence of fig leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Revolt on the Mall | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Selective Service. In Little Rock, Ark., when Civil Service Commission officials explained to a job applicant that positions were limited to those with "veterans' preference," the woman admitted that she was not a veteran or married to one, "but I sure prefer them."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Heavy Load. Investors liked the idea; they could get their money out at any time at the current value of their shares. Securities salesmen liked it even more; the handsome 7½% commission gave them three to four times the profit they could make by handling individual securities. Other brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: How to Keep a Buck | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

There are still some drawbacks. The big commission charged at the original purchase usually eats up the first two years' dividends. And as funds are usually invested in a wide segment of the market, they must inevitably depreciate when the market as a whole is going down. Thus, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: How to Keep a Buck | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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