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...Queen Elizabeth, in a fur-trimmed coat, stood in the drizzle to tell the crowd: "This mighty scheme [will send] new strength surging into the very arteries of Scotland's being." Then she pulled the lever that set the Loch Sloy power plant in operation. As the rhythmic hum of generators signaled the first current, bagpipes skirled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reverse | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Middle Way. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, 50 girls who quit work because the boss would not let them sing on the job went back when he agreed to let them hum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Whiz & Whir. Harper's, like everyone else, was amazed that in the new Pullman car "you converse as you would in your parlor at home." By 1896, it somewhat sadly admitted that progress and speed were everywhere and "the hum of the trolley is in the air ... we can only have peace by moving on with the whirring, whizzing world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harper's Century | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Second song writer: "The tune's O.K., but you're all off on the lyries. Why not call it "Three Little Words." It would go like this. 'Three Little Words, that's all I long for, is three little words, hum, hum, humm...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

...Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient as to raise suspicions of overselling, the hum of scientific progress in weaponeering was real, and the best news in months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Waging Peace | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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