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...work has been admired by people who would put their minds on it, and either ignored or jeered at by a greater number who gave it a fast superficial reading. The first U.S. publication of his collected poems means that the first party may be making a little headway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...that had been proved in the last two years was that where the anti-Communist forces took a joint, positive line, they could make headway against Communism. Where they did not take such a line, the Communists made headway against them. Western Europe was, in fact, the only area of substantial anti-Communist progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: How Safe? | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...thereby make a pretty penny. Kirkeby's company bought Hampshire House two years ago for $3,550,000 and later borrowed $3,350,000 on it. So far it has earned him less than $700,000 before taxes, which makes Kirkeby think "we are not making much headway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Co-Op Coup | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...there any future for Christian missions in China? Yes-but not for the institutionalized missions of the recent past. To make any headway in a China overrun by Communism, missionaries will have to go back to Christian beginnings. So says Journalist Robert Root of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, just back from a tour of the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionaries to Communism? | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...State Department feels that the Voice is making headway abroad, in spite of handicaps. George Allen says: "Luckily, the Moscow press and radio give us an almost exact gauge of the effectiveness of our programs . . . Radio Moscow's efforts to answer the message of Democracy, carried by the Voice, have grown into a hysterical scream during recent weeks, and 18 Soviet stations have been identified as trying to jam us. We are clearly stinging the Kremlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Le Pick-Up Americain | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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