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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel profits were large: $606 million after taxes, based on the first half of 1949 -an increase of 124% over 1940-41. But that was not as big as it seemed because of the drop in the value of the dollar. And the industry's recent modernization and rebuilding policy "has absorbed most of its recent substantial profit...
...known he was flying into trouble. When he refused to provide an Air Force plane for a bit of round-the-world congressional junketing (TIME, Sept. 12), Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas whirled in bristling counterattack. He demanded that Defense Secretary Johnson furnish him detailed information on all recent trips made by Administration officials in military aircraft. Then he left town for the weekend...
...been scolding the sloppy dressers of the world since the 1860s when it found that the "beauty and symmetry" of American frock coats were being "nullified through advancing the scye [i.e., armhole] beyond a point absolutely required by the form and size of the figure." In recent years it has turned its batteries of disapproval on the baggy pants of some of Britain's top Socialist ministers. Nothing, however, that Tailor & Cutter discerned in Westminster or the wastes of the U.S. could quite equal the awful abyss it found in Moscow...
Divine Prerogatives. To back up his charges, Dean Bowie cited such modern instances as the Vatican's Lateran Treaty with Mussolini (which named Roman Catholicism "sole religion of the State"); the recent reports by New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart of discrimination against Protestants in Spain (TIME, March 7); the 1885 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII stating that "it is not lawful for the State ... to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; and an article in the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica (TIME, June 28, 1948) which stated: "The Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through...
...decisive. Freud and his followers argued that the sexual personality was often determined by seemingly trivial incidents in childhood. When the so-called "sexual hormones" (testosterone in men, estradiol in women) were discovered, many physicians decided that hormones must be the agents which determine sexual behavior. In recent years, tens of thousands of effeminate males and masculine females have been given shots of one or the other...