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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian delegation to the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, would go from there to a Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting in London. Then he wanted to visit Italy and Greece. But the chances were good that long before he had done all these things, he would have named the date for his retirement. The temptation to pick a date that would take the press play off the Sept. 30 National Conservative convention would be almost irresistible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: POLITICS: Last Fling | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Follow That Car. Correspondents got no briefings before the Kremlin visits, and no comment afterwards. They haunted the embassy entrances, set out in hot pursuit whenever a bigwig drove away, trailed the envoys to every lunch and dinner date. Arriving at the British embassy after one tiring encounter with Molotov, Ambassador Smith, usually an even-tempered man, snapped irritably: "You just sit here. I'll tell you everything." Then he told the newsmen nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moscow Run-Around | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...proved again last week by the evidence uncovered in the hearings to date. This was that the Administration had been staffed by some criminally gullible if not criminally liable officials, and that Administration higher-ups had been extraordinarily careless in hiring them and keeping them in their jobs. That was something the U.S. had a right to know and to legislate about, if legislation seemed to be needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Right to Know | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Congressional Joint Committee on the Economic Report thought it had some fever-hot news: U.S. employment, production, income, prices and profits were all close to record highs in June. Yet by the time the committee reported its figures last week, they were already out of date. Everything had gone higher-and was still rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Midsummer Express | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...year bankruptcy, got it back on its feet with its indebtedness greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Crew | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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