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...chemistry of their bodies were understood. The greatest promise of level four culture is practically costless power. There have been guesses about how it might be used: in air-conditioning cities, freshening seawater for irrigating deserts, blasting away mountain ranges. But atomic technology is still too new to furnish any guides for guessing. When the first crude Newcomen steam engines began pumping out British coal mines in 1711, no one could have imagined how they would transform society. One way to help in the projection of the atomic age is to compare present-day life with that of driven Egyptian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: STEEP CURVE TO LEVEL FOUR | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...American World Airways will make two round trips a week, and daily round trips' from June through September, from New York to Rome, to carry U.S. pilgrims celebrating the Roman Catholic Holy Year. Pan Am, which does not have a scheduled route to Rome, will furnish ten-day, $698 all-expense tours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: First-Class Bargains | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Grand Jury? . . . Would the editors deprive an applicant for a government position ... of their endorsement? Does the editorial admonition mean that Harper's advocates protecting a foreign agent against the security of the U.S. ... Does Harper's advocate the view that a person decline to furnish facts to an investigator that would establish the innocence of a person unjustly accused? Does Harper's believe that the government of the U.S. should employ members of the Ku Klux Klan or of the Communist Party, by urging persons possessing such information not to communicate it to an investigator when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: A Few Answers, Please | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...dashed to a friend who knew the postmaster to get the check back before it was delivered. Without being asked, the friend lent Hilton $50,000 to cover the check. When Hilton ran out of money again, he went back to his landlord and persuaded him to finish and furnish the building. Then Hilton rented it back from him at $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Deeply Resent." Indignant Hester McCullough called up Igor Cassini of the New York Journal-American, in whose Cholly Knickerbocker column she had read some of the Adler-Draper Red-bordered record. Cassini said the Journal-American would furnish her with information that Adler and Draper supported eight or nine Communist-front organizations. Fortified with the list, she wrote the Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Concert In Greenwich | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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