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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of "The Ark on Ararat" [TIME, April 25] was very erroneous. I do not know how well the artist has read the Bible, but if he will turn and read Genesis 6:16, he will find that the instructions were to put the door in the side and not in the end as he has. Also I think he will find that the Ark only contained one window and not the plurality he has pictured . . . The indication is that Noah opened the (one) window...
...interested to know that one country in the world now has as many English-speaking readers of TIME per capita as the U.S. That country is Canada. This generous acceptance of an American news publication by another country had its beginning in 1924 (TIME'S second year of publication), when 172 copies were sold in Canada. In 1928 circulation had reached 1,000; in 1936, 9,000; today it is 108,000. These subscribers and newsstand buyers get their own edition, TIME Canadian, which is the same as TIME'S U.S. edition except for a maple leaf insigne...
...four tough years ahead in the White House. But at 65, the President seemed to be in better shape than when he took office four years ago. "The President," proclaimed the White House physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, "is as close to being an iron man as anyone I know...
Last week the new owner of the moldering phalanstery did not know quite what to do with his acquisition. He could always wreck it for the lumber. But he had an idea that it might become a tourist attraction: it seemed like the kind of thing a vacationing capitalist might spend two bits to inspect...
...sent an army of hard-hitting salesmen to invade the U.S. Many fine old British industries, such as pottery and cutlery, which do a steady but limited trade with the U.S., often have no sales program; they merely wait for orders. Other enterprises send salesmen abroad who do not know their way around the U.S. market...