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In the week that President Truman announced his program for mobilizing the U.S. economy, the Senate's new watchdog committee on U.S. preparedness uttered its first warning growl. After just a month's sniffing through the U.S. mobilization effort, Texas' sharp-nosed Chairman Lyndon Johnson had caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Texas Watchdog | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

For an airliner, the 463-mile flight from Fort Worth to Kansas City is a matter of two hours, but for the B-36 bomber that waddled out onto the runway one day last week, the flight would take some 30 hours and its course would take it over 7...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: MAN IN THE FIRST PLANE | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

After the snatch, the general (who quickly became resigned and quite amiable) was rnarched from cave to cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Kidnap a General | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

With a deep tooted farewell, the French Line's rebuilt Liberté last week nosed out of Le Havre into a Channel rainstorm and headed for New York. The "maiden voyage" of the world's third biggest liner had been delayed six hours by a last-minute protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maiden Voyage No. 2 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

The village elders, dressed in black gowns over white robes, advanced in greeting, preceded by the ly-truong, or village chief. We sat around a rectangular table and drank hot tea and tepid beer. A sharp-nosed, black-eyed young man called Nguyen Van Tin explained about the Anti-Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: VILLAGE OF NO ILLUSIONS | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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