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Still the "CC." Relieved of Foreign Ministry routine. Premier Soong could now devote more attention to China's galloping inflation and related problems. But though T. V. had won great administrative power, he still had to buck the political machine run by the Kuomintang's right-wing "CC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Changes | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Dr. Bush, the inventor of a better-than-human calculator, M.I.T.'s famed differential analyzer, was impressed by the ingenious mechanical brains (directing gunfire, for example) developed during the war. Dr. Bush has decided that scientists should now devote themselves to organizing the vast amount of uncollated information about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Machine that Thinks | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

In the past our education has lacked certain important elements. One of these is a program to impress the young man and woman with a sense of responsibility to the national society. ... If it were simply taken for granted as part of our educational scheme that every man devote a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

As his armies battled grimly forward in eastern China (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai:shek streamlined his Government to keep political pace with them. In order to devote full time to his No. 1 job, strategy and the Army, he resigned his post as China's Premier. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Premier | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Chicagoans have learned to put up with many a civic stench, but by September, 1944, some of them could no longer stand the smell of their public-school administration. They called on the National Education Association, lumbering but potent watchdog representing some 900,000 U.S. teachers, to investigate. But when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Stink in Chicago | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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