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Comeback. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, once called "a bankrupt hunk of rusty junk," completed the painful climb to respectability (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). It declared a common stock dividend-its first in 67 years, its second since it was founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Married. Victor Mature, 34, Hollywood's sulky-faced "beautiful hunk of man"; and Dorothy Stanford Berry, 28, Pasadena socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Commercials for television are causing deep furrows in admen's brows. The perfect solution, advertising experts have decided, would be an overpowering combination of eye-catcher (four roses in a hunk of ice) and ear-filler ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Message from the Sponsor | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...when the city of Hilo, Hawaii was threatened by Mauna Loa, a local princess was called to the rescue. Mumbling an incantation, she threw a hunk of her hair into the onrushing lava and stopped it right on the outskirts of town. In 1935 the U.S. Army substituted TNT bombs for hair, and tried the same stunt -with about the same result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Shakers | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains in and had rushed at him with a hunk of concrete in his upraised hands. A hung jury left Ivins free to go around as he always had-with a .45 automatic hitched to his belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESEE: Booby Trap | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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