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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadways. Halifax never said or did anything very startling, but his patient kindness, that at first seemed to some the mere mask of condescension, convinced the U.S. at last that it was the genuine article. The U.S. decided that Halifax would never be at home in a ball park, but he was good goods. Brooklyn and Broadway knew that he could take it. Now that he was going home,* the U.S. discovered that it was sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Good Man | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...about fixing me up with a table and I don't want one in the Polar Region." (Editor's note: behind a pole.) If he says no, make it a50, as I happen to know the poor guy . . . has a tough struggle buying a home on Park Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Correct Form | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: How Much Hunger? | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Upper Park Avenue, a bright-colored, schoolboyish splash by New York's Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin. Said Socialite Joe Baldwin: "[Painting] takes a very short time actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sideshow | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Goodyear has been operating a pilot assembly plant in Litchfield Park, Ariz, for a year, believes that 48,900 houses a year can be mass-produced at a cost of under $2,500 apiece, plus delivery charges. Like some 'other prefabricators, notably Bucky Fuller, Goodyear Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield thinks that surplus war plants could be used to turn out his houses. But Wingfoot has made few houses to date, for the same reason that has delayed all building: lack of materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Goodyear Makes Its Bow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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