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...Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Naked City | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Special Treatment. They called a "progressive" strike (an hour's work stoppage the first night, 1½ hours the second, etc.). Eva Perón's Democracia got special treatment: a stoppage plus a slowdown. For strikebreakers, Eva called in convicts from Buenos Aires' federal penitentiary. The convicts refused to work. Democracia was among the first papers to suspend publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Shadows in the Half-Light | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...ultimate, agonizing peak of performance. Last week the nation heard the wheels slow down a few revolutions. Though they had cursed inflation to a man, U.S. citizens had grown so used to the howl of high-speed gears that any change in pitch sounded ominously like warnings of a slowdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Change of Pitch | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Slowdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors Lead in 'Cliffe Intramural Sports Contest | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...pierced Togliatti's right lung, a third had struck him in the neck. He was able to mumble a question: he asked if his briefcase was safe. It was. He was taken to the Policlinico, Rome's largest hospital and the only one not affected by a slowdown strike of doctors, nurses and attendants which had begun that morning as a protest against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Blood on the Cobblestones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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