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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both turned out in Buenos Aires' Retiro Park for a mammoth show marking the first anniversary of the purchase of the national railways from their British owners. It was a full-blown Peronista rally, and the speeches had all the flavor of the old oligarch-baiting times. Without bothering to offer proof, Perón's Transport Minister proclaimed that the railways (reported last month to be losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Comeback? | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...machine consists of a mammoth metal cabinet, on which perches a mechanism resembling a combination of two lathes and an iron lung. On one of the two revolving cylinders goes the photograph, on the other a sheet of plastic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advent of Photo Engraving Machine Rocks Local Daily | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

Conventional M-G-M also grabbed some of the most unconventional talent in the business: there would be a Preston Sturges original for Clark Gable, a comedy by Garson Kanin, and Quo Vadis?, a mammoth epic to be shot in Italy by John Huston. But there were also plenty of safe, sumptuous projects along the more familiar M-G-Model, e.g., Annie Get Your Gun, the Broadway musical, a sequel to Mrs. Miniver, and what was described as an "adult" love story for Lana Turner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Skies | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...budget. In doing so, the Navy was also shifting its weight around, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, where the Navy would add 30 new combat ships. But the Navy, already possessor of the mightiest aircraft carrier fleet in history, was still going ahead with the building of its mammoth 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, hoping to prove that long-range bombing is its business as well as the Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Easy Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Campaigns for Freshman Smoker positions, already packed with more stunts and gags than any in recent years, yesterday produced a cold-blooded "murder," a baby-kissing spree, a mammoth aerial billboard, and another owl-hunting expedition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Campaigan Rolls . . . | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

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