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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loaded into that conclusion. European nations, for instance, will have to relax or abandon the tight net of restrictions on currency and commerce that now strangle trade between them. The French will have to put enough faith in the Allied control of Germany to let the German steel industry work for Europe at a higher production level. This will be even more difficult for a Frenchman than for a citizen of New Hampshire to resign himself to seeing another $15 billion go out of the U.S. But unless both France and New Hampshire face the facts, the "Marshall approach" will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: WHAT PRICE PEACE? | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...rate things were moving toward harmony, Mr. Conlon might yet see a parade. In another 257 years he could go out on July 12 and be as safe as a salmon in a drunken Kerryman's net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: And Quiet Flows the Boyne | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

After waiting half an hour for Britain's Royal Family to arrive for the final match, Kramer went to work on fellow Californian Tom Brown. It was not even close. Kramer's big serve, with its high and tricky bounce, his skill at the net, his brilliant passing shots were all going like clockwork. It was all over in 45 minutes: 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, but Kramer was convinced that he had put on a lackluster show. Said he afterwards: "We were both excited and nervous before the match started because there was such a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unbeatable | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...change my plans." Last week Mrs. Rudkin and her 160 employees roudly moved into their new $625,000 plant. A U-shaped concrete building, it has a capacity of 4,000 loaves an hour. With it, Mrs. Rudkin expects to double her business to $3,000,000 this year, net about $300,000. Though she is now mass producing bread herself, she has made only one grudging concession to the mass market. She has started to sell a loaf already sliced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Rudkin of Pepperidge | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Floyd D. Cerf Co., with net worth of only $87,352, stands to gross about $2,800,000 through the sale of Tucker stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Qualified Approval | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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