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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entitled Ulysses by James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words-many such as are not ordinarily heard in reputable circles-shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end. To those in on the secret the result represented the greatest achievement in modern letters-a new idea in novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halting Words | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...arrangements in England, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. The home office delivers the design, advertising and selling campaigns-and production know-how. Joyce's British partners, for example, after training at his Pasadena plant, managed to boost their own man-hour output by 50%. The result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half the price of competing models of equal quality. By combining quality and economy, Joyce has built his foreign income until it accounts for about one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: For Comfort & Profit | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...still," the workers tramp the leaves down, 1½ tons at a time, into the huge vats. Then steam is forced through them for 45 minutes to an hour. This boils out the essential mint oils, which are condensed through water-cooled coils and then drained off. The end result is a faintly yellowish-white fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: A Good Rotation Crop | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Midwestern Mushroom | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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