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...rest of the book, Stalin's career, from the Bolshevik coup d'etat of 1917 to his final ousting of Trotsky, suffers from a glut of documents, letters, telegrams, secret official papers and memoranda. Only Trotsky, a superb pamphleteer, who is practically incapable of writing badly, could have made his insistent exegesis readable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hark from the Tomb | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Europe. . . . France is better off than England, and Italy infinitely better off than France. [Even in England] I found it possible to eat well and cheap in London, Canterbury and other English towns. I found a similar situation in Paris. . . . One may go from restaurant to restaurant and glut oneself even in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Is Anybody Hungry? | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...many soap operas glut the daytime hours. The two largest networks, NBC and CBS, carry some 40 between them. Once, in 1940, 55 of the 59½ daytime hours a week were filled with twittering throbbers. Polling U.S. homes, FCC found that during soap-opera hours 76.8% of available listeners had their sets turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Worst | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Cuba for the next ten years. And Cuba cannot be blamed for wanting that. She knows that if she does not cash in on a long-term deal now, when there is a world sugar shortage, she will lose out. Before many years the shortage may turn into a glut and sugar may drop to 1.8? a pound, as it did after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Sugar Situation | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Besides the Gershwin glut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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