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"If further funds, or further authority, should be needed ... I shall not hesitate to bring the situation before the Congress. . . . The United States contributed $341,000,000,000* toward winning World War II. This is an investment in world freedom and world peace. The assistance that I am recommending for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The World & Democracy | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

But despite the necessity for helping Greece and the "legality" of our moving in, unilaterial action on the part of the United States in the Greek crisis would constitute a subversion of the United Nations. Chapter VIII, Section 1, of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for U.N. organization states: "The Security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Tragedy | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

¶ The Tennessee legislature decided that freedom of worship had its limits, passed a law prohibiting handling dangerous reptiles "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." Reason: in the past two years, two ministers of Tennessee's fanatical snake-handling religious cults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Another obstacle: the U.S. is the last more or less laissez faire nation in a world of controlled economies. The guardians of those other economies believe that U.S. freedom is really a wild lack of order which might endanger all who are in any way tied to U.S. economic policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Translation Trouble | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Recently the Air Forces removed all paint from its P-80s. The tiniest chip or crack might endanger the plane by roughening the air flow. In a test flight, according to one group of experts, a gnat squashed against the leading edge of a P-80's wing. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Supersonic Nemesis | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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