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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain is "the linchpin of the structure," said Monty. "None of us can stand alone and none are doing so today ... In Western Europe, the eyes and thoughts of everyone are ever turning westward . . . They look to the English-speaking nations and wonder if they can count on their help: definitely. We must not let them have any doubts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: None Can Stand Alone | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...more. This comment was not only ill-advised but downright untrue. If the Big Three rivalry means nothing, why do 60,000 people come to the Harvard-Yale game annually? Why does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records? The Big Three rivalry is hardly meaningless, even though the national title...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Most of the bells exhibited are from the New Haven Railroad. These are valuable, but from a dollars and cents point of view the lithographs of locomotives would count most; they are the drawings of the engines as they actually appeared, with some in color...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Railroad Museum Shows Rise Of American Train Travel | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...count was tied 11 all as the clock ran out on the fourth chukker, and was still tied at the end of the first overtime when the score stood at 14 to 14. Goals by Randy Tucker and Pete Manigault sewed up the game for the Princetons, in spite of a last minute score by Crimson captain Walt Reveraggi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Defeat Polo Team by 1 Point 16-15 | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Thus, for all Snyder's talk about periodic balances, this policy of writing blank checks has actually put the budget beyond practical control. Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. admitted as much. Said he: "For any given year, it is unpractical to count on achieving any specific goal, whether it is a balanced budget or a pre-determined surplus or deficit." Such items as crop support, in which the expense cannot be totted "up in advance, "can substantially change the surplus or deficit." In short, neither Snyder nor Pace had any idea when the budget would be balanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Too Many Blank Checks | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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