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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This seemed to mean that, in return for a chance for Soviet citizens to inspect atomic plants in the U.S. and elsewhere, Russia would let non-Soviet citizens peer (to some still undefined degree) at what Russia was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Nothing New | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Bell XS-1 (TIME, Dec. 23), designed to reach a supersonic 1,000 m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base; Consolidated's needle-slim XB-46, the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing, now being adapted to jet propulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Balance | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...holds those advantages and because Russia is so patently lacking in all but manpower reserves, Ike Eisenhower could guarantee a stalemate, at least, if war came now. Even though parts of Europe or Asia might be occupied, there is no strategic bombing force that can reach the U.S. and return-today. Meanwhile the U.S. could smack the enemy's homeland with atom bombs within 48 hours, order the Navy and Marines into action to seize advance bases from which to mount an aerial attack while the job of rebuilding the nation's war potential was begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Balance | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...plant to Tucker after turning down an offer of $12 million from the Consolidated Grocers Corp. It also contracted to pay Tucker some $75,000 a month to pay a staff to look after the $100 million worth of Government tools and surplus equipment in the plant. In return, Tucker promised to pay $1,000,000 by Oct. 1, 1946, for two years' rent, and $2,400,000 a year thereafter. Then Tucker fought off Wilson Wyatt's attempt to take the plant away from Tucker and use it for Lustron Corp.'s prefabricated housebuilding (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Torpedo Torpedoed? | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...dear young friend," wrote Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who advised all would-be authors to take a steady job and to write in their leisure hours), "suppose yourself established in any honorable occupation. From the manufactory or counting-house . . . you return at evening . . . with the very countenances of your wife and children brightened. . . . Then . . . you retire into your study [where] your writing-desk with its blank paper and . . . other implements will appear as a chain of flowers." So Author Read obediently took a job in the Treasury-and quickly discovered that "dear Coleridge" had been talking through his hat. Nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of Two Worlds | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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