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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following up this lead, Beteta's agents traced some 80 sales totaling more than 9,000,000 silver pesos, with an estimated profit of more than $1,000,000. All the silver had been turned over to a notorious smuggler named Roberto Maese, who moved it across the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pieces of Silver | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

After listening to the squawks of World War II civilian-sailors for four long years, the Navy authorized the first basic change in the bluejacket's uniform since 1817. It ruled that in 1952 the pants of dress blues will be equipped with full-size pockets for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Sea Change | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

He had arranged to give his body to Massachusetts General for autopsy. What the pathologists found was the first known case in which both the original prostatic cancer and the outlying colonies in the bones had disappeared. The latter had been completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Benjamin Twaddle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

The Life of Riley. Moose-jawed Cinemactor William Bendix, who has been Riley for four seasons, has Hollywood movie work to do, will be replaced when the show moves to TV.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

From now on, proclaimed the Trib, words of more than one syllable ending in "ff" will end simply in "f," e.g., distaf, sherif, tarif, midrif, bailif, mastif, rifraf. (One-syllable words like cuff, scoff and fluff will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: F as in Alfabet | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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