Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace Is Rebuked. In her analysis of whether the U.S. is capable of doing so, Miss Ward takes up the major arguments which the Communists, Henry Wallace and his opposite numbers in Europe use against the U.S. Will there be a depression in the U.S.? Says Miss Ward: maybe. There are few present signs that a depression is imminent but there are also few signs that the U.S. has learned how to master the bust & boom cycle. Will the U.S. return to isolationism and leave Europe in the lurch? Says Miss Ward: definitely not. Is the U.S. imperialist? Says Miss...
Muso and his men struck at Madiun, the republic's third largest city, in the heart of Java, straddling a major east-west rail link not far from Jogjakarta, the republic's capital. Supported by a mutinous brigade of the Republican army, they seized the key points in the city, set up a "People's Republic" and called for the immediate overthrow of President Soekarno's Republican government. "These arms," screamed the Communist radio from Madiun, "will not be silent until the whole of Indonesia is free!" President of the "People's Republic" turned...
...voluntary association was already trying to clean up the 60-million-circulation comic-book field (TIME, July 12). In full-page magazine ads, National Comics Publications Inc. (Superman, etc.) was plugging the better comics as " a major moral force ... a highly salutary recreation...
...twice a month were entitled to buy "commutation tickets," and thus avoid paying the 15% federal transportation tax. Mid-Continent expects to run eleven commuter routes (sample: Kansas City-Tulsa), sell commuters' ticket books (four tickets, valid for one month) at an 18% discount. At least six other major lines intend to start commuter services...
Gilfillan has been getting a kick out of a bewildering mishmash of things since he completed his major in economics at Stanford University in 1912. He started out with a smelter (one employee, a chemist), but when platinum was found in Oregon in 1913 he began using it for contact points for automobile magnetos. World War I found him turning out parts for Jenny trainer-planes, but by 1923 he was one of the nation's first five radio manufacturers. A competitor brought out a vastly improved set and overnight, says Gilfillan cheerfully, "I found I was obsolete...