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...heaviest losses in Europe's art museum had been architectural. Considering the hail of shot & shell, bomb and superbomb that pocked the face of Europe for six years, the treasures still surviving were a lot to be thankful for. But much of the best in Western civilization had been blown apart, and what was gone was irreplaceable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Europe's Loss | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...executions' eve, many Russians, French and even Germans believed that the sentences had been too light. It was perhaps typical of the world's comparative ethics that the heaviest twinges of conscience were experienced in the U.S. and Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Forgive Us Our Sins . . . | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...none of the shifts affected the ministries long under heaviest Tory attack-Fuel, Housing and Food. Attlee had just shifted personnel, was standing pat on policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Old Policy, New Men | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...then, is for exactly the right number of men to appear each minute. Impossible as this plan obviously is, it leads to the second-best answer of spreading the load evenly by trying to avoid the rush hour. In the case of supper, while the line is at its heaviest when the doors open at 5:30 o'clock, the rush has been created by just such an attempt, on a universal basis, at arriving when nobody else is eating But at breakfast, when the peak is at 8:30 o'clock, lines could be shortened considerably if the tendency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thought for Food | 10/3/1946 | See Source »

...cities or areas were as well off as Salina, Kans., which had meat for about 30% of its people. Waterbury, Conn, and Reading, Pa. had no fresh meat at all. On the heaviest food shopping day of the week, Indianapolis had an average of only two ounces of meat for each of its citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Everybody's Poison | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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