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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists feel? Mijnheer van der Meulen was regretful. "I would like to be helpful," he said; "we used to have some Communists in the plant. But now we have only one left, and I'm afraid you cannot meet him. We've given him some time off. You see, this week he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Galveston v. Peat Bogs | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...pieces of baggage and 36 soldiers. Forcing his way into the packed cabin, he counted 126 crates, bundles and gunnysacks, and 69 people. MacWilliams shouted for the commanding officer and forced him to toss off half the luggage and cut the number of people to 50. "I'm still 5,000 pounds over," he said as he gunned his engines, "but it's a good day. With all this high pressure we'll make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Are We Usually Doing? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...date she has not given to Who's Who in America). "Where is this going to be printed?" she added. "It's for our files," replied the reporter. "Oh, an obituary. Well," ruled Mrs. Post, "if they're not going to print it until I'm dead, I don't care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...they needed someone they could "depend on." Said resourceful Chick: "A friend of mine is in the Golden Gloves, that's a boxing club, and he fought four rounds and won a beautiful $150 Bulova watch ... If he can do it, I can do it. So I'm gonna enlist in the Golden Gloves, and I'm gonna fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Trouble with Crime | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...15th time in as many years, Fred Allen announced last week that he was quitting radio. The satchel-eyed comic told New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "I'm going to sit around and think, and see what's going to happen with television." And he "may write. I have four chances to do books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mr. Allen Regrets | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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