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...helping each European nation separately, beginning with the worst risks, we will simply be pouring money down a row of rat holes, beginning with the deepest. Let the Europeans get together, figure out what they can do to help each other, and then tell us what Europe as a whole needs for recovery. If that looks like a reasonable amount, and if there is some sign that this expenditure will really get Europe on its feet, then let's go through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: WHAT PRICE PEACE? | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...plus handling turn-ins and requests for extra seats. It is easy to imagine that it will be doing a land office business. Unless there is a large staff on hand, the Quincy Street Emporium may be faced with the same un-ending lines that blessed last year's rat race. Much of the queueing-up might be avoided by using the mails to consummate the application-ticket exchange. Perhaps the H.A.A. intends to use such a procedure, but its announcement does not carry that implication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Deal | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

...type and an individual, and every one is well-acted. There is Jaggers, the keen, comfortable and surprisingly soft-hearted lawyer; Pip as a boy, played with magnificent restraint, obedient, kind-hearted, and romantic; Miss Havisham, the grotesque bride of another day, who dies horribly in the great, old, rat-infested house. Practically every character is sympathetic and human, yet each holds a menace of grotesque evilness in himself, something that is brought out more clearly, yet just as subtly, in the movie as in the novel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago celebrated "Rat Extermination Week," hoped to wipe out 2,000,000 rats. Aldermen toured the city in sound trucks urging everybody to pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Rat. In Oslo, Aage Hjersing was indicted as a war collaborator. Among other charges: he gave the Wehrmacht aid & comfort by selling them 64 fine Norwegian mousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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