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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said , bulletheaded, 76-year-old President Juho Paasikivi, who still swims in the ice-cold bay beneath his villa and who admires solid sculpture: "We now have unrationed meat, and it has worked very well. The farmers get higher prices. Our crop in 1946 was 63% of prewar, but it should be up to 70% for 1947-and remember we lost 12% of our arable land under the treaty. We are expanding industrial production. Our Communists are sometimes noisy but so far they have not succeeded in forcing nationalization beyond the point of maximum effectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Autumn Cloud | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...coax her out of retirement, BBC had spread itself handsomely, and tailored a program exactly to the solid (5 ft. 5 in., 130 Ibs.) Fields measure. The twelve-week series is Gracie's first in Britain, though she has starred in three U.S. radio series. The new show is aired three times a week (once live, twice transcribed) to the largest audience BBC can offer. The actual number of listeners is a secret, for BBC believes that publication of such figures "makes for jealousy between the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Our Gracie | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...intermediary period. What I do know is that if this were the case, our duty would still be, as it was for our ancestors of the year 1000, to scrutinize our own disorder and to try, for the honor of man, to build on a solid foundation a city which, according to our faith, either defies or appeals to eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The End of the World | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, somewhat stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...mountain went through an awful lot of labor, considering the results. But Father is still pleasant, solid entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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