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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...T.U.C., like unions everywhere, had been built up as a fighting force to win what its members wanted. Under a capitalistic sytem, one of unionism's functions was to limit the power of owners and managers. Had it a similar function in the socialist (or socialoid) society which unionism had created? T.U.C. delegates last week fumbled around for answers, found none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the Ice Age | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...think it would be a splendid gesture to suggest to the member nations signing the North Atlantic Treaty that they be allowed to liquidate their war debts in similar fashion. These funds could thus become great pools of mutual friendship and good will, helping the generation about to cope with world problems to work harmoniously and understandingly together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...George Sherman's direction, the picture moves with somnambulist deliberateness and Dana Andrews continues his ponderous new style of acting like a mutinous galley slave. The other principals behave in harrowing situations like mechanical toys that need winding. A new actor, Jeff Chandler, registers a slow magnetic power similar to Gregory Peck's, and is apt to become at least half as popular. Stephen McNally, oddly the only one in the movie who tries for a Jewish accent, misses it spectacularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...agreement would set a fourth-round wage pattern for all industry. The C.I.O. autoworkers, already set to strike against Ford for similar demands, are dragging their feet. So are John L. Lewis' mineworkers, whose contract has expired. All told, more than 1,500,000 unionists are watching to see if it is peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Last Licks | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...least six other New York Stock Exchange houses have similar exhibits scheduled at agricultural fairs throughout the East and Midwest next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Farmer's Market | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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