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...reason for this is that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad will be the first major line in the country to operate its trains on Daylight Saving Time. In other words, it will move all trains up an hour tomorrow and move them all back again next fall, instead of just reprinting the timetable in the normal manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daylight Time Causes RR Confusion | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Despair Among the Tunghsi. Daylight does nothing to light up the funereal mood of the city. The morning rush hour crowds on Chungshan Road are too dispirited even to shove or grouse as they wait for buses or pedicabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: City of Defeat | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...blue eyes and fair skin, he is likely to assert solemnly that he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian. His parents say: "He's liable to tell you anything." Asked about his birthplace, Chuck says: "Ah come from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Masson tried to explain last week what the switch meant. "Don't think I'm going to return to the Barbizon school and paint descriptive landscapes," he began. "No, I'm still a surrealist, but a sun-loving one-seeking the fantastic and mysterious in broad daylight, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Innocent, More Detached | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...kill only about 20 men in ten years in & around the docks. Now & then one of the hoodlums went to the chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole and still steal $50 million a year in cargoes, mostly in broad daylight (shipping men politely called it pilferage). They pad stevedoring payrolls. They shake down truckers and they turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Date at The Dance Hall | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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