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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick morning, the control tower at Tempelhof was hushed as operators tried for contact with a C-54, lost for an hour over the city. Finally the plane landed. "Here they got the fifth largest city in the world," muttered a relieved tower operator, "and they miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Clay's Pigeons | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...students feel about Hastings' old men? When the new term opens next month, Hastings' enrollment will be 700 students (most of them married G.I.s earning their own way), making Hastings not only the oldest law school west of the Mississippi, but also the largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Life Begins at 65 | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...leased, not sold, and accounts for some 75% of the rock bits used in drillings all over the world. The present Hughes enterprises include Hughes Aircraft at Culver City, Calif.; Hughes Productions (movies); a controlling interest in Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., and a brewery, the largest in Texas. There is an exceedingly large but unknown amount of cash out of which Howard Hughes paid for his RKO stock. The net income of Hughes Tool, the parent company, is estimated at $8-10,000,000 a year, but since Howard Hughes owns 100% of Hughes Tool he does not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Most U.S. industries last week had a price wolf by the ears. For the cement industry, a way to get rid of him seemed relatively plain. Bowing to a Federal Trade Commission order recently upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, May 10), Universal Atlas Cement Co., largest cement maker in the U.S., last week grudgingly gave up its basing-point system of pricing. The company called the order "economically unsound and wrong," but it announced that it would sell henceforth at prices f.o.b. its plants; freight costs would be applied to the buyer's bill. Smaller cement companies promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Wolf by the Ears | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Hotels Statler Co., second largest hotel chain in the U.S., mopped up behind its fast extending lines. From the Pennsylvania Railroad, for an undisclosed sum, it bought Manhattan's 2,200-room Hotel Pennsylvania, which Statler has managed since it was built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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