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What would bring out the grain? Government analysts and traders who know the farmer best believed that the quickest solution would be higher ceiling prices for grain and light-to medium-weight hogs. But the Government had pledged that there would be no such lifts at the expense of the U.S. public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Where Is the Wheat? | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...news stories of more than local interest, but to keep us constantly filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying, thinking. And you may be sure that these correspondents never fail to jack us up when we get off the beam; they are, in fact, our quickest, toughest critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...disconcerting as the force's lack of balance. Approximately 60,000 of the A.A.F. next spring will be gunners. Pilots, who have generally collected the most points, are leaving in droves. The smart, self-reliant youngsters whom A.A.F. would most like to keep are the quickest to leave; they are not afraid to try civilian life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - DEMOBILIZATION: End of an Army | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...Slowest way to get drunk: highballs while standing at a bar. Quickest: straight whiskey or cocktails lying down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pointers for Peace | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...tune last week was Lyricist Johnny Mercer's On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - from the railroad of the same name. Written two years ago for M.G.M.'s yet unreleased The Harvey Girls, the song began catching on a month ago, became one of the quickest hits in the history of the U.S. music business. Sheet-music sales to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nice & Lyrical | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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