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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resplendent Senate committee room, marble-pillared and hung with crystal chandeliers, sat a group of bored Senators. Some studied the lofty ceiling, some doodled, some blinked at the witnesses who were still parading before them after four long weeks. Every once in a while, like snapping turtles at sight of a bug, they stretched out their necks to snap and gobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On Whose Side, the Angels? | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...member of the Berlin Magistral recently stopping in for a Heissgetränk (hot brew) at an ancient, smoke-blackened wine cellar saw a sight that made him rub his eyes. Around a table sat a group of middle-aged men, some bemonocled, some with pince-nez, all with wide silk bands of green, white and gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: NAZI REVIVAL? | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Prospector Austin McVeigh, who had made one of the famed gold strikes at Red Lake, Ont. kept mighty quiet about the discovery he made afterwards. Ranging the muskeg around Lynn Lake in 1941, he caught sight of a likely looking outcropping. The samples he took had traces of nickel and copper. Prospector McVeigh took back his boss, Eldon L. Brown, president of Sherritt Gordon Mines, to prospect further. Their magnetometer, which detects ore bodies magnetically, indicated a huge body of ore below the muskeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRAIRIES: The Big Strike | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...rehearsal procedure will go into effect his week following a suggestion made at a recent Pierian meeting. According to an announcement made by the new executive committee, rehearsals will begin with sight-readings from the Sodality's library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra Will Travel to Wellesley Sunday; Pierian Sodality Lends Rehearsal Library | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...springs" and the frozen Virginia Falls, 316 ft. high. After flying 15 miles through a canyon whose sheer walls rose to 1,500 feet, the plane landed on its skis in the valley itself, a great bowl set amid the mountains. There was no living thing in sight, not even the fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton found in his quick peek were two crumbling cabins near by. In one was a faded pin-up picture of Rita Hayworth, which the exploring reporter matched with a pin-up note: "Kilroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: No Shangri-La | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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