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Word: questions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoboken, N.J. one day last month, honey-haired Ruth Comfort, a University of Toronto student, was all set to walk down the gangplank of the Volendam and take the train home. Then a U.S. immigration officer began to question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: So Sorry | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Good for Everybody. Those three offers embraced just about all the variations on the principle over which the steel industry was deadlocked. Apparently both industry and labor could be persuaded to modify their stands on the question of employee contributions. The real test was whether the plans would work out in practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Ford Model | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Spring or Autumn? By 342 votes to 5 (the Conservatives and Liberals abstaining) the government's money measures were approved. Winston Churchill's motion of censure was defeated 350 to 212. The merits and demerits of devaluation had been engulfed in a more urgent question: When would the election be held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of the Giants | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...question was how West Germany should meet British devaluation; what mattered was the damage done in the search for an answer. Here is a play-byplay account of what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Struggle on a Mountain | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...absence of Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been in London, was getting to be a campus issue. "Where's Dr. Stassen?" cried the undergraduate Daily Pennsylvanian. "This question has been asked more by the incoming freshman class than the directions to College Hall . . . And we realize what a hard year the first one is. But all good things must come to an end and we believe that Dr. Stassen unnecessarily missed the opening peal of the school bell. After all, the European trip was his third vacation, he'd just returned from Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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