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Alarmed, Harold Stassen sent down the order: step on the gas. Though he kept mum himself, he was working hard behind the scenes, directing every move, writing or editing most of the speeches. With ten days till election, the outcome was touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Touch & Go | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...gold brick. In Montreal last week it was the atom. Seven smooth swindlers dumped $500,000 worth of atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom-stock sellers. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gold Brick into Atom | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Contracts & Plans. No one will say what the present Government payroll amounts to; it is a quasi-military secret. The universities are mum. The Navy grudgingly admits that it has signed research contracts for $600,000 with M.I.T., $350,000 with the University of Chicago, $280,000 with Caltech, $220,000 with the University of Texas, $200,000 with Cornell. Undisclosed additional amounts are in the offing. All told, the Navy expects to spend some $45 million on research, much of it for basic science in universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Military Moves In | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Britain's Foreign Office, which has always kept a jealous eye on the "gateway to India," remained mum, the War Office referred callers to the India Office, the India Office said: "No importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: And Now Pistachio | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Frankfurt, Army investigators kept mum about the death of a civilian stenographer, whose naked body was found outside an Army captain's quarters, six days after her arrival in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wondering | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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