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That is the number, of the 18 million living U.S. veterans of three wars, who will get V.A. doctoring this year. Five hundred thousand of them will be in V.A. hospitals. The annual medical bill: $500 million. And V.A.'s medical care of most of the veterans of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor to 4,000,000 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Sweet & Sour. Readers who followed Molotov, Gromyko & Co. through recent international conferences will recognize the exasperating Soviet sweet-sour game, though in 1943-45 the exasperation was probably not all one-sided. The U.S. had reservations, too (e.g., U.S. airmen were briefed to destroy certain devices and documents in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exasperation in Moscow | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Then Anthony made his big killing with a flash success called Ballyhoo (top circ. 2,000,000), which was full of pretty good and not so good humor based on the repetition of the name Zilch. Ballyhoo satire on American advertising made so much money for Editor Anthony during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Them Were the Days | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

As grocer to a famished world, the U.S. found that openhanded promises were far easier to make than deliveries.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Painless Cure | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

In all, some 12,000 fugitives from Franco settled in Mexico, most of them in and around Mexico City. They found the language and customs congenial, relief for those who needed it efficient and openhanded. The Cardenas Government offered immediate free citizenship for the asking, set up a Casa de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fugitives from Franco | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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