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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University students all over the world have just returned to the second half of the academic year. In the United States the occasion was marked with minor celebration, as though another birthday or obscure holiday had broken the comfortable routine. At the University of Athens the opening of the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lest We Forget | 2/18/1947 | See Source »

His briefcase may be bulging with facts, but his brain apparently ignores those it doesn't like. Those of us who trained with wooden guns remember a few of the men like Taft who, to further selfish and party interests, fought Roosevelt's preparedness program. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Invitation to Struggle. Was a solution possible? The only proposal under official consideration was a British plan for tentative partition of Palestine for five years, pending a final settlement. The five-year clause would be an invitation to both Jews and Arabs to continue the struggle for advantage during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Prisoner of War | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Say the Medellinenses: "In a generation we will have skimmed the cream of economic opportunities in Colombia. After that we will recreate the Gran Colombia (Simon Bolivar's old dream of a united Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador), which the stupid Bogotanos have tried patching together again with flowery speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Roaring Free Enterprise | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

The deal was further dampened by a fact which neither Woodhead nor Gross would dare to admit publicly: that they and all other big aircraft manufacturers are facing one of the industry's worst financial storms. One big cause is the shuffle of military budgets, which will cut deeply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rifts & Tangles | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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