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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To that, Ohio's Vorys had a persuasive answer. By putting through half of the plan now, he argued, "we are showing our good faith, our willingness to go forward. By reserving action on the other half, we will in effect give notice to all of the governments concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Half a Loaf | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Republican Senator Bridges was having his troubles, too. He had made many a speech demanding economy and cast many a vote against labor in the Senate, but he was now finding it difficult to explain his own acceptance of John L. Lewis' hearty bounty while drawing $15,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Embarrassment of Riches | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Getting Rough. Last week Hathorn told all, and seemed to enjoy doing it. "We Democrats," Hathorn quoted Vaughan as saying, "have to stick together." When this did not win over Hathorn, Vaughan went further, confidentially confessed an amusing little indiscretion of his own. He had told Allied's president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: What Woufd Harry Say? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Some American comment was indeed impolite and some of it was unfair; a great deal more was sound and factual, and it could have given British readers a close view of their plight, which they appeared never to have gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Hard Hearts, Hard Facts | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Clark makes his comparisons by means of an "international unit" (IU). One IU equals the amount of goods and services that $1 could buy in the U.S. during the period 1925-1934 (see chart). Clark takes his figures for Russia from official Soviet statistics, but adjusts them in an involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Back to 1900 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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