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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force. As a matter of fact, U.N. had done about as well as such realists as Van Kleffens thought it would. Despite warnings that U.N. was not world government, the man in the street from San Francisco's Embarcadero to Calcutta's Chowringhee focused his attention on the international police force that was supposed to prevent aggression. On its second birthday, U.N. showed no sign of becoming a supersovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Town Meeting of Two Worlds | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Heart of the Matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

These scientists, unlike the more volatile elements in our press, feel that other states--even the advertised Eurasian mind of Russia--will come along if a world peace plan is seriously attempted, as a matter of simple self-maintenance. Their conference over, the scientists are heading back to laboratories that the war-now advocates feel they should never have stirred from. Yet their brief lucid interval of thinking on the problem of our time will quite conceivably prove more worthwhile to the cause of peace than the efforts of the small battalion the press maintains for this purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prescription from Princeton | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

From that point upward, says Lockheed's Designer Clarence Johnson, "the drag curve is almost vertical." No matter how much power is applied, the P-80R will fly only a little faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At the Barrier | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Welcome once more agreeably. I must tell you in due course of my loveable colleague Juan Gomez, who will devotedly conclude with you unspeakable preferences in the matter of: soap, matches, silk pyjamas (for any gentleman's Mrs.), jewelry, oranges, cigarettes, brilliantine (most desirous), also all manner of especials. Great news if you are always in virile way of living since we made merry commonly in the pasture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Sails Crowding | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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