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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest lottery loan in history-20,000,000,000 rubles (nominally $3,774,000,000) to be advanced by the Russian people for 20 years. Every comrade will be asked to subscribe at least a month's wages. In return, he will get non-interest-bearing bonds whose serial numbers will also be lottery numbers. One-third of the bonds will win cash prizes up to 50,000 rubles ($9,435). Initial subscriptions were heavy; one scientist signed up for 100,000 rubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Chances for Comrades | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Double Indenture. In Atlanta, a serviceman, asked for identification, pulled out his upper denture, exhibited name, rank, serial number, blood type and religion engraved on the shiny red roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...military mind was closing in on the G.I. journals. Fortnight ago the Berlin edition suffered a body blow. The brass ruled that any letter to its "B-Bag" section, the doughfoots' one safety valve, must bear the letter writer's name, rank and serial number (not for publication, but in case the letters called for action). Under a rule like that, nobody was likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Brass Moves In | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How Many Listeners? | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

They fled-Nano, Romana, the sister and the brother-to the lowlands of Shantol, then to the tiny village of Malabo. The Japs were always close behind; sometimes Romana crawled along the ground under sniper fire to beg or steal food. She burned out the serial numbers stamped on Nano's army pants, finally got him a forged birth certificate which enabled him to pose as a Spanish farmer who had come to the Philippines before the war. After that life was easier; they could go back to Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: In Our Time | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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