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Nevertheless, many of the complaints about competition from Marshall Plan-aided industries are hardly justified. Some of the keenest competition has come from industries that got little or no Marshall Plan money, such as British bicycles, Italian sewing machines and Swiss watches. And indi vidual companies were not handed new plants and tools, but had to pay for them just like any U.S. manufacturer. Marshall aid furnished dollars to for eign governments, and the foreign companies then paid for the equipment in their own currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: COMPETITION FROM ABROAD | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...results of most history quizzes indi cate that history in general is dully written, dully taught. Yet historians and teachers, who have plenty of excuse for being complex and controversial, have very little excuse, considering the pulsing nature of their material, for being dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: History on the Beam | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...this may not have signified much more than a bride's beginning to buy her trousseau in expectation. A better indi cation may have been given by a seemingly platitudinous statement that pious, hard-hitting General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave to the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Setting the Date | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Although it is "the first time anyone ever moved in on my brain," Sugarpuss turns out to be just what the encyclopedists need. They discover that the bed each of them has been sleeping in is a snoose, that long-time-no-see is just Indi an corn, that "stick close to the Ameche" means mind, the telephone, etc. Yum-yum, however, upsets the entire establishment. Sugarpuss demonstrates it to Professor Potts, and they wind up married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...tutoring school situation we see a threat to the liberty of the indi- vidual student at Harvard," the editorial concludes. "We conceive that liberty to be one of the factors which raises Harvard high above the other training grounds of the world. Let us protect that liberty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Threatens Harvard 'Freedom' | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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