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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commodities in the state stores was not enough to equal demand. Stores imposed their own rationing, limiting what customers could buy at one go. Some customers queued & queued to get what they needed. Others adjourned to the peasants' markets, where supply was more plentiful and price ceilings off. Result: peasant market prices soared to three times the controlled prices, and peasants began to get back rubles recall had taken from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tombstones & Wolf Traps | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...resolution drawn up at yesterday's meeting, the left-of-center group said that "the current third party movement represents a retreat from really which may result in the election of a reactionary administration and brings closer the possibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberals Abandon Henry Wallace as Only Four Dissent | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

...vaudeville team, Paramount's Gold Dust twins stage a hoary entangled-arms routine which, unfortunately, stayed behind when Wheeler and Woolsey left Hollywood by popular request around 1935. And when they combine forces with a trio of Latin musicians for a five-man hat-mixup act, the result is probably the unfunniest three minutes in film history, not excepting the newsreel shots of Pearl Harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

Would-be lawyers will have to pay more for their training at the Harvard Law School next fall, as the result of a $100 per term increase in tuition announced yesterday by the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Will Jack Tuition Fee By $200 Annually | 1/6/1948 | See Source »

This however is not always possible. Against more offensively-minded aggregations with a store of reserves like B.C., Berg cannot chance flooring his second team for a possible opponent's offensive splurge. The result: a flagging, lifeless attack and a 49 to 35 defeat...

Author: By Rubric J. Shortschett jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/6/1948 | See Source »

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