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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Throw the Commies Out." Joe was so baffled that he was even ready to take advice from his old A.F.L. rival, roughneck, Communist-hater Harry Lundeberg. Lundeberg told him: "Throw the Commies out of your union and get out of that phony C.M.U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Torpedo Named Joe | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Aung San himself had acted under pressure. Although he publicly clamors for complete independence, he privately favors a tie-up with Britain as a means of ensuring military protection. His main rival is Communist Than Tun, who instigated protest strikes against Aung's less extreme attitude toward the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Decline & Fall? | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Wonderful Life (Liberty Films; RKO Radio) is a pretty wonderful movie. It has only one formidable rival (Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives) as Hollywood's best picture of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the fray between rival College dramatic organizations continued as the H.D.C. executive committee excommunicated several Dramatic Club members who participated in the recent Veterans Theater performances of "I Was King in Babylon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.D.C. Cancels Plans To Give Wolfe Play | 12/20/1946 | See Source »

...knows how phloem necrosis spreads. Dutch elm disease is better understood; it is a fungus carried from elm to elm by small bark beetles. They slip through the meshes of the strictest quarantine. Spraying will kill them, and the Department is experimenting with DDT and its rival, benzene hexachloride ("Gammexane" in Britain; TIME, June 24). But it is not too hopeful. There are too many elms to spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Elms | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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