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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belgium, which fought her inflation with rigorous, classic financial methods, has made a rapid recovery, and it was quite a pleasure to see the familiar Esso trademark on the bright-red new gasoline stations going up on the main roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Dewey and Earl Warren pitched their speeches in organ tones. They were calm, forgiving and even humble. They both quietly stated one main issue: it was time for a new broom. There were other minor issues. But this was the big one. After 16 years of one party, it was time to clean house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Friendly Battle | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...issue into the U.N. Assembly or Security Council for debate. Exposing the Russian blockade-and the why and what of the great Berlin airlift-to the world's view might be an effective move in the building of public morality which, at this point, was U.N.'s main business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: And So to Paris | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...year-old American University of Beirut, in the Lebanon, is one of the main outposts of western influence in the Near East. Last year, when A.U.B.'s kindly, white-haired President Bayard Dodge decided to retire (TIME, Sept. 29, 1947), Near Easterners wondered where the U.S. would ,ever find his like. For 35 years, Bayard Dodge had impartially dispensed advice, criticism and friendship to all creeds and factions, but kept his tropical suits unsullied by political controversy. Last week a troubled Near East (see INTERNATIONAL) got its first look at Dodge's successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beirut's Fourth | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...speaks to Americans as well, believes that theirs is the main responsibility for Europe's future. He thinks that any advocates of an attack on Russia would be as wrong as the appeasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inquisitive American | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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