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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall: We would have to put forth great effort to insure that Japan continued to move under her own steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secondary Front | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forlorn Hope | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

What sort of engine would be used? Poole was vague. It would not be a nuclear turbojet, he said, or a steam turbine, or a ramjet. All these had been tried and found wanting. The atomic engine, said Poole, would be a "nuclear rocket." That was all he would say. The nature of the nuclear rocket, he said, is secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Hints | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...mock madrigal singers, Love Life chronicles the marriage of Sam and Susan Cooper (Ray Middleton & Nanette Fabray) from 1791 to the present. The Coopers are a couple who never grow older, but the Cooper union is one that constantly grows worse. Love Life's argument is that steam, speed, materialism and greed have slowly wrecked connubiality. (It might be retorted that even allegorical couples were not meant to live together for 150 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Indians did it. And I'm glad--as glad as a Yankee fan can be. Because thank the Lord there will be no subway series in Boston. This should at least take some of the steam out of the Boston papers...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

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