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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the Boy Scouts. When Vittorio announced his scheme in the tiny local headquarters of the Saragat Socialists, Comrade Vittorio Proietti almost banged his head on a low-hanging lamp as he jumped up to embrace Vittorio. Twice he embraced him, crying: "Comrade Excellency, Comrade Excellency, we shall win over to Socialism all of Arsoli's youth." Then an idea struck Proietti; he burst into long peals of laughter: "Why, we may even get Catholic Boy Scouts to turn Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE WATER OF ARSOLI | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...experimenting with monkeys in specially constructed pressure chambers, Dr. Gelfan, an assistant professor of physiology, has learned that at 52,000 feet the barometric pressure of the air is so low that it is about equal to the pressure inside the tiny blood vessels of the lungs. Under such conditions, there is not enough pressure to force the oxygen through the walls of the blood vessels and into the bloodstream. Explained Dr. Gelfan: "At the moment of decompression . . . the pressure of oxygen in the blood would be greater than in the lungs, and under such circumstances oxygen is actually lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Hazard | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Automobile tire sales were ballooning. A severe winter slump had persuaded tiremakers that they were up against a postwar decline,* and they had gone after customers with talk of new styles and promises of greater comfort. Firestone brought out a low-pressure "super balloon tire", U.S. Rubber an "Innacush" (industrial solid tire), and Goodrich a tubeless tire. But buyers hardly noticed the new offerings; they just needed tires all of a sudden, and standard models were plenty good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surprise | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Leonard brothers, in addition to low prices, lure customers with such things as shopping buggies that have space for both packages and babies. In keeping with their original general-store idea, the Leonards try to stock their counters with so great a variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something for Everybody | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...pleasant to see Sally Eilers again, even as a hungry widow; all the other players do all right, too, within the modest requirements of this kind of piece. The Cinecolor, as usual, is fine so long as the colors are low-keyed, but in open sunlight, all outdoors looks like a roast beef special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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