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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter A. Rubel, Richard T. Povill, and Daniel J. Young of Thayer; Derrick M. Wilde and Calhoun Dickenson of Holworthy; William W. James of Mower; Clayton L. Sommers of Massachusetts; Thomas W. Hoya and Richard E. Reed of Weld; Ernest T. Berkeley, Jr., of Lionel; Stephin L. Rudin, Waverley R. Beall, and Richard E. Johnson of Mathews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Elects Union Committee Under New Constitution | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...gaudy Times Square, the Embassy Newsreel theater was working on a deal with the J. Arthur Rank Organization to become a showcase for topnotch British films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sureseaters | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Surrounded by empty money bags, Harry P. Shea, 74, retired head of a chain of dry cleansing stores, was found slain today in the fur storage vault of the company's main office in Cambridge. Chief of Detectives Patrick J. Ready said the elderly Shea was apparently ambushed inside the building, forced to open the vault which contained money and furs, and then slugged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16,000 Aluminum Workers Walk Out, Tightening Country's Crisis; B-36 Runs Ocean Training Flight | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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