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...Thank God for Winston Churchill.' But I do now. We need a man of courage and vision. We are in the worst jam we have ever been in, and unless every man, woman and child wakes up, we will go completely down the drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prejudices & Propositions | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Even before coffee began to give out, Sáo Paulo's industry got a running start from one of the greatest engineering feats on earth. The city stands near the Atlantic brink of a broad plateau whose rivers drain away to the west and finally to the sea 1,000 miles away in Argentina. In 1922, Asa Billings, an Omaha-born, Harvard-educated engineer for Sáo Paulo's Canadian-owned power company, got the idea of damming these rivers and guiding their waters back over the 2,400-ft. palisades to the Atlantic. Magnificently successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: City of Enterprise | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Square is holding its own in the crisis, however. "We have felt no special drain on pennies so far," Albert Hamilton, assistant treasurer of the Harvard Trust Company, told the CRIMSON yesterday. "Other trust banks always have a surplus from parking meters and we can use that if we have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buddy, Can You Spare a Penny? | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

...England bowed to its first autumn monsoon over the weekend, the University witnessed winds of 60 miles per hour and heavy rains totalling almost two inches. Students who could find hip boots waded through four inches of water covering Boylston Street. Others raced about to buy antifreeze or drain radiators when the thermometer dove to 32 degrees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain, Snow, Big Wind Pounce on Cambridge | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Letting a baby have a chance to develop a feeding rhythm of his own takes more judgment than feeding him at set intervals. But it's much easier than having an unhappy baby ... A baby's hunger is the best clock to go by." Also down the drain are the old, rigid schedules of toilet training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Babies Then & Now | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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