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...elder brother, Satish Chandra Bose, a quieter and steadier Congressman, was South Calcutta's delegate to the West Bengal Assembly until his death last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Cloud | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...earnings were something. On sales of $1,145,000,000, the net profit was $110 million. For the half year, G.M.'s gross was up only 22% over 1947. But its net was up more than 50% ($4.55 per common share v. $2.97), thanks to higher prices and steadier operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...there pitching, his team three runs behind, when the last game ended. He had come in too late. Bucky Harris' Yankees were normal and steady again. And no one was steadier than Pitcher Joe Page, the Yankees' hero of the day. For five straight innings he shot his fast ball across the plate, and only one Dodger reached base. It was the end of the Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nothing Like It | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Slimmer, Steadier. The Navy says with a straight face that the Neptune is only a peaceful research project. Its specifications give it a warlike look. It will be 45 ft. long-one foot shorter than the German V2, which is now considered obsolescent. It will be slimmer (32 inches in diameter instead of 65) and will weigh about six tons fully loaded, instead of the V-2's 14 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: King of the Sea | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...century college life-a sort of Frank Merriwell at Yale served up with beer & pretzels-that had a nice off-Broadway run in 1937. But such things have gone on & on since 1937, they are all much alike, and each one, to get by, calls for stronger drinks and steadier drinking than the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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