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...line's end in the city of New York, the 266 boxcars of the "Friendship Train were unloaded last week. With the contributions of New York, the cross-country haul of food donated for Europe's hungry added up to more than 12,120 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Hopes & Boxcars | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Wheat at $3 a bushel had sprouted a rash of "wheatleggers." Organized like racketeers, they case a remote granary, on a quiet night back their trucks up close, bore a hole, and fill up. A single haul may be worth as much as $1,300. Said Jake Sims, director of Oklahoma's Bureau of Criminal Investigation: "They've got a better racket than the bank robber. It's not only safer-there's more money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...owners are parking on borrowed time. Only through the grace of the Cambridge police department are they able to leave their automobiles on the city streets overnight without punishment. City ordinances authorize the police to ticket offending cars or even to haul them away. With a complete file of registrations on hand in University Hall and open for city use, even out-of-state owners are now within the long reach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ballot or Ticket? | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...flowing skirts copied from those worn by wives of frontier cavalry officers. Their shelter is still the "hogan," a windowless, one-room log structure with a hole in the dirt-covered roof to let out smoke. They still live far from streams because unfriendly spirits inhabit them; most must haul their water from one to 15 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Winter of Death? | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...merely bigger airports but a number of airports which split up the traffic. As a start, the low-traffic Newark port will handle 52 of the flights now using LaGuardia every day. Eventually, the Authority hopes that Newark will handle all the Metropolitan area's long-haul traffic; Idlewild, which will be opened by July, will handle transatlantic flights, and LaGuardia will be left only domestic, short-haul traffic. The Authority expects to spend $250,000,000 in the next five to seven years to develop the airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Out of the Stack | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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