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...fares, the airlines were mum. But not until they can put into operation their high-speed, deluxe planes now on order, such as Lockheed's Constitution, is there much chance that they will get fares somewhere near the dream rates-$100-$150 one way - which the airlines have been glibly quoting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: At Last: a Policy | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

After the Fact. There was no immediate explanation why the official news was held up. Downing Street was mum; the White House was coy and confused. Best guess was that Joe Stalin had held up the joint announcement either because: 1) his Ukrainian armies still faced a small segment of determined Nazis in Moravia, or 2) he was not yet ready to set off Russia's victory celebration. Finally, from London, came word that the official announcement would come the following day. Thus, for the history books, May 8, 1945, became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory In Europe: How the News Came | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...when auto production will start, WPBoss Krug kept mum. But he flatly denied reports that the industry has already been given the go-ahead to turn out 250,000 cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Actually, automen knew as well as Krug that there would be no signal given for auto production until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Peace | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...visit from Memphis' owlish Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Leaving the White House, Ed Crump was mum. Scuttlebutt had it that he had been summoned in an effort to get him to stop Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, the Senate's premier spoilsman, from trying to wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Issue, New Styles | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Pondering this revolutionary theory, and well aware that Dr. Ehrenhaft is a cantankerous man in an argument, his fellow physicists kept skeptically mum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Is Light? | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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