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Anti-Nature. But the floor show of the week (which Citizen Washburn apparently missed) featured Senate debate on a bill authorizing the District of Columbia Commissioners to institute daylight-saving time in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Between the dusk and the daylight When the broadcasters step up their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Children's Hour | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...through the jungle sniffing out the tarsiers by their musty odor. When the hunter shakes the trees, the tarsiers move on. When a sizable number have congregated in an isolated tree, the natives shinny up and grab them, knowing that tarsiers, like owls, cannot move around very efficiently in daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cousin from Mindanao | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...House of Commons, it was not to discuss prospects in the dim & distant future, but to state the stunning fact that industry in London and a large part of England and in Wales would have to shut down; that shops, buildings, hotels could have no electric power for five daylight hours a day; that domestic users of electricity could also have none in those hours. Only "essential" services would be supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blackout | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into a honking, gear-clashing bedlam of traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Progress Report, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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