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Next day the planemakers trooped to Washington to tell their story to Senator Owen Brewster's aviation subcommittee. Glenn Martin, short of cash, has been able to borrow only $3,000,000 from bankers. He has had to ask RFC for a $25,000,000 loan to keep operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Help! | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Two months ago the Chinese Cultural Theater Group of Shanghai began a goodwill tour of the U.S. (they have already played San Francisco and Chicago, will next swing through the South) on a financial shoestring. The company left China with only $37,500 in cash and props, is now down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hsi Chu | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

"The Time, etc," embraces exactly the elements you invariably have to endure in these epic events from the California flicker factory the Broadway musical show produced on a shoestring, the leading lady stepping into and out of her big role, the in genus who was weaned on opera, the "name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

His new hero, Steve Canyon, would be a lean and squinty, older version of Terry; a fellow with an easy, insolent, Gary Cooperish grace that marked a breed of plainsmen, and airplanesmen. Canyon knew the world and its airlanes-and its women-as his granddaddy would have known the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

But for the most part, Smithsonian scientists stuck to "description," that amiable super-hobby which leads learned men to scour the earth for rarities. Working always on a shoestring, they explored the West, dug up dinosaurs, collected insects, mollusks, birds, minerals.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientific Grandpa | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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