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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubber workers in Dayton at the magical new 15? figure. At the least, it meant that Walter Reuther would be hard put to it to avoid accepting about the same terms at G.M., at Chrysler, and at Ford. At most it meant that the U.S. could look forward to a season of real labor peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Mood | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Concerning the atom bomb, Cadogan said that the Russian announcement of "willingness to accept international control and inspection" was a large step forward, but he warned that doubts have arisen as to the exact meaning of the Russian statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cadogan Says U.K. Will Accept but May Not Enforce U.N. Palestine Plan | 4/24/1947 | See Source »

...Fordize" Russian plants. Workers were exhorted to "Do it the Ford way, it is the best way." His name was better known than Stalin's at the time. Villages held festivals in honor of the Fordson tractor. Wrote Leon Trotsky: "The most popular word among our forward-looking peasantry is Fordson. The peasant speaks of the Fordzonishko (dear little Fordson) gently and lovingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Last of an American | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object he took from the salver; it was not sacred. He simply picked up the large yellow, celluloid comb (lacking three teeth) and combed the patriarchal hair and beard in full view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pashka | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...like a quarterback throwing a forward pass and catching it himself. As Virginia's wartime governor, urbane Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. had often told the people what was wrong with their state university and had persuaded the General Assembly to spend $4,500,000 to fix it. Last week ex-Governor Darden took on the presidency of his languishing alma mater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Change in Charlottesville | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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