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. . . Now I shall have ammunition to throw against my near-sighted friends who cannot see that, in underwriting a rehabilitation program for Europe, we are not magnanimously playing Santa Claus for the whole world but are, in reality, trying to save our own necks. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Luxury Ferry. Grey and ghostlike in her war paint and swifter than any but the fastest warships (an average speed: 30 knots), the Queen Mary whipped around the Cape of Good Hope and up to Suez, turned up again & again in Boston and in Manhattan's North River, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: The Queen | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

The Kon-Tiki was doing all right. Last week, the men on the big log raft (modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa) sighted the first land they had seen since leaving Callao, Peru, three months and 4,100 miles ago (TIME, April 21). It was the island of Puka Puka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Landfall | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

"No Flying Saucers have been reported over China, but we have been troubled by Flying Thudwunks-or, as the Chinese call them, Celestial Whang-bongs. Our one-eyed wash coolie, Yeh, sighted an unusual bright green Thudwunk two evenings ago whizzing across the thatched roofs of the native village next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

On Nov. 29, 1944, she was under way on her trial run. Instead of her regular crew, she had aboard hundreds of dockyard men and technicians. Some 180 miles south of Nagoya, the U.S. submarine Archerfish sighted her, dark and enormous among a shoal of destroyers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Down Went Shinano | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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