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...Biggest drag was continuing supplier strikes; General Motors alone was burdened with 63, down from 143 at the end of May. Chrysler had to shut down this week to let parts supplies and materials catch up, a move that will cut the week's total production by at least 20,000 units. And somewhere in the murky water was the added threat, first visible last fortnight, of new wage demands by the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. First on U.A.W's list: Chrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Treading Water | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...warmed the glass with his hands and slowly sipped some of the liquor, inhaling it deeply as he raised the glass to his lips. Again, he lifted the cigarette and swallowed a long drag of the thick blue smoke, letting it curl out of the corners of his mouth. He posed. It was a beautiful sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 8/16/1946 | See Source »

...finished off the drink, and taking a long drag from his cigarette, casually flipped it into the fire place. It missed. He picked it up and tried again. The butt looped neatly into the shadows of the hearth, and Vag, following his reflected image in the glass, turned on a well-worn heel and sauntered over to his desk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 8/16/1946 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fundamentals | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Skeleton's Exit | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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