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Wearing a long-billed flight cap, the President toured the hangar deck, put-putted around on a tractor, climbed up to the island, then went below on another tour to sick bay, engine room, bakery, and finally to a brief stop at the soda fountain.. By mid-afternoon Press Secretary Charley Ross had developed a bad case of foot blisters. Harry Truman was still fresh and going more places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rest | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Norman F. Fountain '49--Mary Inghram (Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Goers and Guests | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

...peace offer to another large segment of industry, OPA plans to lower price ceilings for new manufacturers of such items as toasters, lawn mowers and fountain pens below those of established makers. Now, new manufacturers often have ceilings outrageously out of line. In some cases, they were set 150% above those of established companies, in the weird belief that this would spur production. Instead, old manufacturers simply stopped unprofitable production, and the shortages became worse than they had ever been before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Retreat into Battle | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Penned In. In Los Angeles, Shopkeeper Dorothy Savey, whose home had just been burgled, called the cops when Customer Essie Flaugher handed her a fountain pen, asked her to file off the name: Dorothy Savey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...this room," he told John, "nothing is shameful. Even if you've believed it is all your life. When you talk about it, John, when you get it out into the open, you'll discover it's not shame." He unscrewed the top of his fountain pen, poised it expectantly over a writing pad. Then John knew that there was no escape, and he began to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Steps of Brooklyn | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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