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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound might work no miracles; but at least it was honest. If honesty was still the best policy, Cripps had moved his country toward recovery-even though it might have to travel through more austerity to get there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Devaluation | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...carbon copy of last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Painful Perennials | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...vehement. They hooted and jeered at pro-Hindi spokesmen, denounced "Hindu imperialism." Madras Representative Ramalingam Chettiar complained: "The way north Indians are trying to dominate us and dictate to us is galling ... I have been in Delhi for two years, and no north Indian has so far invited me even once for social functions, just because I don't know Hindi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Out of Babel | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...year-old Dr. Alberto F. Jordan, presiding judge of the Buenos Aires civil high court. When a Senate telegram told him that he had not been confirmed, the old man went into his study, pulled out a revolver and shot himself. The Peronista press ignored his death. Even Buenos Aires' once-great and independent La, Prensa played it pianissimo. In an obituary praising Jordan's 40 years on the bench, La Prensa reported he had died "unexpectedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Purge | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Last June, Gibbon reported that his artificial heart had taken over the heart and lung functions of dogs for as long as 46 minutes. He will not even guess when the apparatus will be ready to try on humans. The work of the heart can be done, and done well, by the pumping system; but he is not yet satisfied with the way it does the work of the lungs (putting fresh oxygen into the blood). The lungs' myriad air cells have an absorption area of about 600 sq. ft. A machine duplicating so large an area would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Last Field | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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