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...moved fast. He trimmed an estimated $40 million a year, at present volume, off the retail prices of his products, and put out a new 10-in.-screen table model television set at $239 (compared with $325 for G.E.'s cheapest old model in the same size). Willys-Overland's President James D. Mooney found that he, too, could trim prices. He cut $25 to $270 off his Jeeps, trucks and Jeepsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Parade Down | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...California; other thousands died without ever getting there. Those who chose the long trip around Cape Horn (best time: 89 days) risked storms and shipwreck; on the land-and-water route via the Isthmus of Panama (33 to 35 days), the perils included yellow fever and cholera. By the Overland and Santa Fe Trails, over which 50,000 traveled in 1849 alone, the trip could take all spring and all summer-and the gold seeker, plodding onward beyond the alkali desert in the Humboldt Valley, thought himself lucky to get across the Sierras* before the first snows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Argonauts | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

That meant that the remaining 32 Tudors were grounded except for overland freight hops, experimental work and gasoline tanker duties on the Berlin airlift. The Civil Aviation Parliamentary Secretary gave a stark but realistic reason for the exceptions: "Those that have crashed have disappeared under the sea and there is no story to tell. If one crashes on land, there can be an examination of what is left of the aircraft, and those skilled in these matters may find some reason for the failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last of the Tudor IVs | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Orange. Underdog Texas-usually pass-conscious-outplayed Georgia, principally in the line, and marched overland to a 41-28 victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Busy Bowls | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Heavy Blow | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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