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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magnifier. A plastic lens which, clamped to small (52 sq. in.) television sets, triples the size of the image went on sale in New York. The name: Walco Tele-vue-lens. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...changes, including a 7,000 sq. ft. roof sundeck for employees, ran Broadway's construction expenses from an estimated $3,000,000 to an actual $6,000,000. But it showed retailers some new tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE i: Broadway Opening | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...five-deck sidewheeler with a 20,000-sq.-ft. dance floor, the Island Queen operated out of Cincinnati, where for years she had made daily summertime trips to an amusement park called Coney Island. When the Coney Island season closed on Labor Day, she went barnstorming upriver, booked ten days of excursions out of Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Hell at the Dock | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...past Nepal (54,000 sq. mi.) maintained regular relations only with Britain and with occasional visiting Chinese missions. But Britain's departure from India, Nepal's next-door neighbor, has already begun to create a political vacuum into which the U.S. is stepping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Goodbye to All That | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...eagle back into the shell by cutting his payroll from 97,000 to 4,964, letting go all but his West Coast plant. By last week North American was breaking out of the shell again. It had leased from the Government, and started to move into, the 500,000-sq.-ft. Long Beach, Calif, plant operated by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Let's Go, Dutch | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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