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Britain's election campaign was plodding along, with the eyes of the politicians and voters fixed on medicine shelves and kitchen cupboards. The Labor government's Ministry of Food upped meat rations by 10%; it had already boosted the "sweets" ration from 4 to 4½ ounces of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Out of the Cupboard | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

The moviegoer who has finally laid his hands on a ticket goes to the theater at least an hour ahead of showtime and waits in a small side-room where a two-or three-piece band plays for dancing. At a buffet counter he can buy tea, Sitro (lemon pop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: A Night at the Movies | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Bargain Sales. Last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government at last set up a committee to study means of reducing unemployment. There were two general solutions: pump-priming, and deflation. Pump-primers wanted the government to spend part of the reserve in the Bank Deutscher Länder (similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Was 1st Los? | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Six Ivy League are in the process of establishing to central storage library to take little-used research volumes off their own shelves and make a gland pool of material available to all scholars.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6 Universities Map Storage Library; Metcalf Heads Planning Committee | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

The situation now, according to the director of Lamont, is considerably worse than it was last term. Students in several courses have found their required reading shelves completely denuded; others have dipped into books and newspaper volumes only to note that vital pages and items have been torn from their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Purloined Book | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

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