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Word: happens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will not be long before all of our assets are gone and the fund is entirely made up of weaker, worthless currencies." (This could not happen quickly; total borrowings from the fund are tentatively to be limited to 25% a year. But Bob Taft overlooked a bigger fact: if dollars and gold are drained out of the fund they will drain into the U.S. to pay for American goods. In short, the threat is that the hard money assets of the fund will be spent in the U.S., particularly if American tariffs prevent settlement of these debts in goods. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXCHANGE: Expert Opinion | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Once Upon a Time (Columbia) a little boy named Stinky found a caterpillar named Curley, a threadbare theatrical agent found them both, and things began to happen fast. Curley was not just a worm; he could do a turn. Whenever Stinky munched Yes, Sir, That's My Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Five officials and employes of the circus were arrested on technical charges of manslaughter and released on heavy bond. Warrants were issued for four more. Nobody seemed to know what would happen to the circus. All of its performers, roustabouts and animals had escaped unscathed, and it had another tent stored at winter headquarters at Sarasota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Six Minutes | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Harold Alexander has several choices. He can assault frontally, which may be a slow and costly operation. He can attack on the Adriatic side, where the Line is narrowest. He can try landings on either side. Or he can sit, keep the Germans engaged in Italy while things happen to them on other fronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Pursuit's End | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...trained its gunners to razor fineness, set a new destroyer shooting record, was marked as a great commander by the time he went back into the Bureau of Ordnance a year later. It was 1943 before he got back to sea duty. Then things began to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: King of the Cans | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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