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Local pedestrians will have to consult their hymarx on glacier-fording and pray for no snow--at least for the remainder of this winter. The Cambridge snow disposal department, reaching for the collected works of a strong figure in the naturalist school, former Mayor Russell of Cambridge, says that as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Age | 1/24/1947 | See Source »

With only four snow-eating machines at its disposal, the high command of the Cambridge Street Department attempts to clear main thoroughfares and streets serving hospitals and churches once a snowfall has stopped. Thus, by the time the snow platoon reaches an unimportant lane off the beaten path--Holyoke Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Age | 1/24/1947 | See Source »

In its harried career, the War Assets Administration has come in for some businesslike spankings. Last week the brush was laid on for fair. A House committee, in its final report on surplus property disposal, charged WAA with everything from "sloppy business methods" to "catastrophic failure." It also charged "inconsistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Run a Business | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

A little greyer, considerably heavier and hopefully wiser after five years on the job, Rexford Guy Tugwell left the turbulent Puerto Rican governorship last September and retired to the peace & quiet of Chicago. As professor of political science at the University of Chicago he no longer had 2,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Anatomy of Loyalty | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

On the morning of Pearl Harbor itself, Zacharias was at sea in command of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City. Ten months earlier, however, he had gone to call on Admiral Kimmel, "to lay before him my analysis and perhaps to place my knowledge of Japanese psychology at his disposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifteen Guns | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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