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Addressing the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, the President declared that "prices must be brought down" and taxes kept up until the country is "over the hump" of inflation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman Urges Price Reduction, Maintain Tax to Bar Depression; Reuther Submits 'New Proposal' | 4/22/1947 | See Source »

...missing U.S. dead had vanished almost without a clue, lay scattered in remote and inaccessible regions from Manchuria to the hot forests of Thailand. The most dramatic example: the 879 men who had died in the wrecks of 468 different airplanes trying to fly the cloud-hung Himalayan Hump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Gleaners | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Etna, the great hump of Sicily, was just lukewarm then, with an occasional wisp of smoke emanating from its 10,000 foot cone and only the heat still left in old lava flows to hint at its previous activity...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgic, | Title: Mt. Etna Erupting? "Say, that reminds me," Says Crimeditor: "Why, 'way back when . . ." | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

...moved pretty fast. Sometimes he got lifts, sharing the rear hump of a burro with a friendly peon or clinging to the bouncing tailboard of a truck. He walked a lot, too, and one by one he put the boundaries behind him-Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. Six months after leaving San Jose, he was walking down the streets of San Antonio, Tex., gaping at the tall buildings, the glittering stream of automobiles. Then a cop picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Vfctor Manuel & Heaven | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...past year's items of progress: 1) emergence as the Hemisphere's largest Communist Party (120,000 militant members); 2) collection of $600,000 for bigger Party newspapers; 3) pro-labor provisions in Brazil's new Constitution; 4) U.S. withdrawal from outposts on the Brazilian "hump," which the Party naively claimed had been due to its "return the bases" campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Red Harvest | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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