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As the 4 o'clock strike deadline drew near, masses of people pushed and shoved for any train gate which opened. When they reached trains, many climbed in through the windows. Special after special rumbled off with passengers shoulder to shoulder in the aisles. But at 4, the crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Forty-Eight Hours | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Mae West, the iceman's unattainable ideal, was back on stage after a year's layoff. In her new play, Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

The first nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Nobody Liked It | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

The bomb-chesty body of a four-engined Lancastrian (converted Lancaster bomber) rumbled up Buenos Aires' Morón airport, rose easily over the Plata estuary, and shrank into the east. A good turnout of proud British clapped politely. Regular biweekly service from Argentina to London (via Montevideo, Rio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The British Are Coming | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

"New Slavery." As an undoubted authority, Stalin linked Churchill with dictatorship. The war, he rumbled, had not been fought "for the sake of exchanging the lordship of Hitler for the lordship of Churchill. He conjured up a dire future for those who (like himself) could not speak English: Churchill, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Stalin Takes the Stump | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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