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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Were the teachings with which Benedict restored and reanimated the decadent, turbulent society of his time today universally applied and flourishing, then our century could repair its moral and material ruin, find quick and perfect healing for its deep wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Life of Work | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Advertising men are supposed to think up million-dollar ideas. Dean Robinson, 40, an energetic, quick-talking Detroiter, is one who actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Cut-Outs for Grownups | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Playing surfaces proved the chief stumbling-black to tennis coach Jack Barnaby's team as they dropped two quick matches to navy, 5-4, and Army, 6-3, in the season's openers at the service academies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Takes Two on Road; Foreign Turf Baffles Tennis squad | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...nation's ailing airlines got a quick shot in the arm last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board approved their request for a 10% raise in passenger fares (from 4.68? a mile to slightly more than 5?) to last for 90 days. The lines had cried that increased operating costs had made them lose $10,000,000 last year. The boost, they hopefully estimated, would increase gross revenues by $25,000,000, make up for the increased costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Shot in the Arm | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...think so. With air fares now about 50% higher, mile for mile, than rail fares, the airlines were bound to lose some of their present traffic to railroads by a further increase. Airline troubles, compounded of over expansion and falling traffic, were too deep-seated for any quick cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Shot in the Arm | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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