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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crime Pays. In Springfield, Mo., Clerk Harry Nicholson announced that hereafter guests of the county jail could pay for their meals, if they had the price, and thereby shorten their terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...inflation mounts and tempers shorten, as world economic and political crises inexorably reduce our already limited avenues of action. The American public nears a state of vengeful pointing and shouts of "J'accuse." Opinion has not yet singled out the scapegoat from the rogues' gallery of Business or Labor, Wheat Speculator or Foreign Sinkhole. But when blame settles on any one group, Americans will be guilty of self-delusion. For just as "get all I can" is an inalienable right of free enterprise, so is our inflation a result of many factors, some avoidable, others not, but all incontestably interrelated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tilting Windmills | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

...ever-present bugaboo of registration and big game football standing endless hours in lines--has been attacked this year, in an effort both to shorten the wail and give more efficient service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A., Coop Promise Relief from Last Year s Record-Breaking Lines | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...blow lasted 2½ days. While fancier racing craft had to shorten sail to ride it out, the rugged 71-ft. schooner Dolphin II, owned and captained by Actor Frank Morgan, was doting on the gale. She sped westward under full canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Logarithm Victory | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Narrowing Gap. Northwest Airlines, Inc. inaugurated the first regular service from New York to Tokyo, Shanghai and Manila via the "Great Circle" route-i.e., over the Aleutians and northwest Pacific. The new route will be flown thrice a week, will shorten trans-Pacific flying time by as much as 72 hours. New York-to-Tokyo fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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