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"Out of Business." Then Bridges ordered his pickets to open soup kitchens and prepare for a four-to six-months' strike (the last one, in 1947, ran 94 days). "When this strike is finished," he cried, "we will be out of business or they [the shipowners] will be out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Long Siege? | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

From Princeton's University press, and from the pen of Arthur S. Link of Princeton's history department, Road to the White House is the first volume of a projected four-to eight-volume study. Coming from Princeton, where Woodrow Wilson is still a lively subject of conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy in Two Acts | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Anxious whites were relieved to learn that the ruckus was no native uprising but a peaceful "march-to-work" protest against a one-penny (2?) hike in bus fares. Owners of the private bus fleet from Alexandria, ten miles north of Johannesburg and home of many of the city'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bantu Boycott | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

"Then I noticed what appeared to be red flares passing overhead and turned to Captain Robert Bruskin . . . to ask what they were. 'Tracer shells,' he snapped. . . . After daylight we found fragments and saw where one had made a four-to six-inch dent in a [oil] tank before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Shells at Aruba | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Last week, while major-league baseball players were polishing their golf clubs in preparation for the coming spring-training season, many a U. S. youth, with a yearlong accumulation of hard-earned nickels & dimes in his pocket, was hitchhiking south to one of the dozen baseball schools that have sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Lessons | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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