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...Received a pledge of 100% support from Harlem's "unofficial mayor," Sherman Hibbitt, told him: "If you can carry Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mostly Politics | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Ore for Tomorrow | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Kentucky, triple-chinned Representative Virgil Chapman, tippling 300-lb. friend of the tobacco growers, nosed out labor-backed John Young Brown, onetime Congressman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination. In November he will oppose Republican John Sherman Cooper, who won a tradition-smashing victory in the 1946 off-year election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Runners | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...story of Ammouda was a story of tanks-obsolescent, underpowered, British 18-ton Centaurs, packing puny 50-mm. pieces. In order to get them into position, a tank recovery team went first with a crane mounted on a U.S. Sherman chassis. The Sherman scrabbled up the steeper slopes, then towed up the Centaurs with its power winch. Out of seven Centaurs, two finally made the grade. Two got stuck a few hundred yards from their goal, and one blew its tracks on a mine. Getting the tanks down again for another sortie was almost as hard as getting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Squeeze Play | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Four Faces West. Harry Sherman's modest, attractive picture of the Southwest, with Joel McCrea, Charles Bickford, Frances Dee (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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