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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adoption of his amendment would not win over the junior Senator from Ohio to support of the bill which he so sincerely dislikes . . . Senators will probably remember the passage in Alice in Wonderland describing the smile of the Cheshire Cat, which continued after the cat itself had faded from sight. That smile was not very substantial. There cannot be a smile without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Fish Fry | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...operation to restore sight by transplanting corneas from one eye to another has been known for more than 100 years, but surgeons are still trying to improve it. For two days in Manhattan last week, eye specialists from the U.S. and eight foreign countries discussed the delicate operation at the first International Symposium on Corneal Surgery ever held, sponsored by the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Through Specialists' Eyes | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

When an airliner crashes, the airlines and manufacturers scramble to find out what happened and why, but they seldom accuse each other in public of laxity. They prefer to sweep the accident under the rug and out of sight. Last week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course. His airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Washday | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...much each year to run ($221,000) as it does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight for the ailing patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bedside Manner | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...made British determination plain to the world strikes the major theme of the second volume of his World War II memoirs. The title, Their Finest Hour, means just what it suggests-an hour in which the shames and hesitancies of the British past have been whipped out of sight, and the triumphs and tragedies of later years are still unforeseeable. Only the absorbing, solitary hour of the British crisis is present-the decisive hour in which the past must be redeemed and the future secured. It was to this decisive moment that Churchill called upon the people of Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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