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...think anyone like us could ever have a house like that?" a Polish housewife asked her husband as they stood fn Poznan gazing wistfully at a snug, gadget-filled house typical of middle-income U.S. suburbia. "Not in a thousand years!" came the answer from another gawper near by. "And even if they let you have it, the housing authorities would jam two other families in with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Nylon Wonderland | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Pinedo ("Messenger of Italianity," "Conqueror of the Air"), was charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New Orleans, thence across the desert to Roosevelt Lake. Ariz. There careless mechanics let gasoline spill out on the water. A numskull gawper flipped a cigaret and Pouf! The seaplane Santa Maria was no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Man v. Machine | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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