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Primitive Terror. The High Flyer explosion, which was recorded by a seismograph in Denver, did more than sink a neighboring freighter and rake the remains of Texas City. It stirred a primitive terror. A wild evacuation jammed the roads out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Pluperfect Hell | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words of garden men, it was "guaranteed to last a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Step Right Up, Folks | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...skiing is done where most of the $50 million invested in ski lodges, inns, ski tows and slopes in Canada has been spent. That is the 50-mile sweep of rolling, easily accessible Laurentian Mountains, 40 miles north of Montreal. This winter Laurentian resort operators hope to rake in over $30 million from 300,000 skiers (125,000 of them from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Winter Wonderland | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...this: they wanted to continue the committee (the old Truman Committee), despite the fact that it was not included in the La Follette-Monroney reorganization act, passed at the last session. The man who would head it would be Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to rake back over those years when the Republicans were outside looking in. But authorizing one special committee, Democrats argued, meant opening the door to many "special" committees and violating the spirit of the reorganization act. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry was already knocking at the door with another special committee to mull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

From the Sudan south, the Central African bastion would widen out. From it, the British would be able to slam the gates of Suez on any aggressor. They could rake an enemy in the Persian oilfields with rockets launched in Kenya or Khartoum. No threat to a peaceful Soviet Union, the African girdle might be a potent barrier to Russian expansion across the Middle East toward India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: To Darkest Africa | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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