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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...someone else" referred to in your article happened to be my great-great-grandfather's brother, Dr. Edwin James. Let me quote from a booklet by L. H. Pammel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...Middletown, Conn., Miss Nellie Wolan, 34, offered her six-room house for "an affectionate husband" between 35 and 50 years old ("I'm very affectionate myself," she explained). A Lexington, Ky. woman declared she would pay $10,000 for a man. And the Rev. E. L. Burr of Temperance, Mich, announced that he was looking for a husband for his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Passion & Pork Chops | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...peek-at Saturn, which looked like a bright silver dollar amidst its moons and rings. Apparently it took imagination to make much out of it: the New York World-Telegram headlined its story THE SHOW'S A FLOP, but New York Times Science Reporter William L. Laurence wrote that he had been "dazzled by a new radiance from the light of distant stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Knowledge & the Danger | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...standards"). But there is nothing vague about the M.R.A. technique. Teams of 50 to 500 Buchmanites, many of them apple-cheeked, athletic Britons, have descended en masse upon communities, distributing literature, staging M.R.A. morality plays and organizing banquets to provide top-drawer local backing (like Los Angeles' George L. Eastman) for M.R.A. speakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Change the World | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Hard Coal. Producers of more than 50% of the nation's hard coal raised prices from 20? to 30? a ton. The mine operators said the increases would meet an expected demand for higher wages by John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Dealers said they would have to pass the increases along to consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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