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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moderate and democratic," giving the people "democratic self-government, political consciousness and a sense of their rights." As far back as 1944 one embassy report flatly declared the Communists were "the force destined to control China." Urged another embassy report: "A coalition Chinese government in which the Communists find a satisfactory place is the solution . . . most desirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Petition in Bankruptcy | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...alliance of the Philadelphia days had settled well in advance on New Jersey's Guy George Gabrielson as its candidate for national chairman. He was an Iowa boy who made good in the big city as a Wall Street lawyer and industrialist. "Even Paul Robeson couldn't find fault with Gabrielson," said a Negro committeeman from Mississippi. Trilled the committeewoman from Iowa: "I'm in love, I'm in love with a wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Change of Command | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

When the war began going against the Japanese, Negishi's bubble burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Entrepreneur | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...sleepy old town of Moyobamba, in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, men, women & children turned out to cheer; with 17 soldiers and four civilians, Lieut. Colonel Juan Heysen was setting out to find the fabled Angayza mountain. To Peruvians familiar with the legends of Angayza, this was "Operation El Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasure Hunt | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Foods Corp.: "There's one big difference between radio's early days and television's: in radio you had a chance to get in the game [for a] stack of white chips-in television, for national advertisers like ourselves, it takes several stacks of blues to find out whether you've got a pair of deuces or a full house. This, frankly, is giving some advertisers pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Leaning Tower of Babel | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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