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O.P.A. or no O.P.A., the consumer will be doing the right thing by himself and his fellows by out waiting those who stop the flood of production from irrigating the country's dry economy. If you wait long enough the dam will have to overflow. If you have a choice, do not buy. More and better will be had for less within a year. Even the N.A.M. says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caveat Emptor | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

...multitudes on holidays. . . . The parish letters to the faithful, which are the leaders on the front pages of the newspapers, solemnly declare that the Soviet Union is the most blessed nation in the world because it has embraced the one and only true faith, and that the future will overflow with love, joy and singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Destiny's Men | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...central clearing houses in each state to match schools and students, funnel part of the overflow into junior and teachers' colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Scholars | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Philosopher-Playwright Sartre the "city of open sky" was close to nature and its violence-"the storms overflow its streets. . . . Nature's weight is so heavy on it that this most modern of cities is also the dirtiest. . . . When I go out I walk in blackish snow. . . . Even in . . . my apartment a hostile, deaf, mysterious Nature assails me. I seem to be camping in the heart of a jungle swarming with insects. . . . There are the roaches that run through my kitchen, the elevators that make my heart contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Rock Desert | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...longer accepts the dubious overflow of its trustees' attics. From now on the groaning queen of U.S. museums is willing to inherit nothing but the best, and wants no strings attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Well-Taylored Metropolitan | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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