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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five years in the south wing of the royal couple's stately Georgian bridal home, Sunninghill Park. Ten fire companies battled the blaze from midnight until dawn, while flames shot 50 :feet into the air. By morning, when the fire was at last put out, most of the roof was burnt off, and only one wing had escaped damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Downhill in the Dark | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Finnish exports went for reparations; in 1946, 30%; and the expected figure for 1947 is only 15%. This mushrooming trade, now largely with the U.S., has enabled Finns to paint their shutters, fix the roof of the sauna (Finnish bath), refurbish their wardrobes, repair streets and roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Autumn Cloud | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Later that evening Nehru, and other men who would be India's new rulers on the morrow, went to the home of Rajendra Prasad, president of the Constituent Assembly. On his back lawn four plantain trees served as pillars for a temporary miniature temple. A roof of fresh green leaves sheltered a holy fire attended by a Brahman priest. There, while several thousand women chanted hymns, the ministers-to-be and constitution-makers passed in front of the priest, who sprinkled holy water on them. The oldest woman placed dots of red powder (for luck) on each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Oh Lovely Dawn | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Mothers Tremble! When they heard that, the French promptly raised the roof, almost threatened to sabotage the Paris conference. The Communists, who know that French fear of Germany could wreck the conference, hastened to aggravate these fears; L'Humanité cried: "Let French Mothers Again Tremble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Pas de Pagaille! | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Bouncing Baby. In Brooklyn, Marie-lena Lucas, 2, leaned too far from an attic window, fell 30 feet to a porch roof, 15 feet farther to the ground, got away with minor bumps and scratches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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