Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Russia's bureau cratic capital the more freely and eagerly people talked to him. Elsewhere, in the ensuing 16 countries he visited, Welles followed the same plan: get a car and start motoring, gather your impressions tourist-style by avoiding the good hotels in the capital cities, stop wherever things look interesting and ask questions...
Heading toward New York, the train began to snowball. At each stop it picked up new carloads. By the end of the second day, it had more than tripled in size. The Friendship Train was not Chuck Luckman's idea. It had been born in the mind of Columnist Drew Pearson as a good-will gesture from the people of the U.S. to the people of Europe. But it would help Luckman's program indirectly...
...flyway, which will be flown by some 30 million ducks this fall. Some of its marshes and lakes are fed by water that bubbles at 200° from hot mineral springs-and ducks like to break their journey there. For a lot of ducks, it's the last stop...
...that did not stop the Federal Trade Commission. Last week it charged Philco with running "a lottery . . . stifling and suppressing competition in the manufacture and sale of radios." The spiff system would probably be tested in court...
Solid Consolidation. In Wilmington, Del., a U.S. district court approved the purchase of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. by Columbia Steel Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary. The Department of Justice had argued that the $8,000,000 deal would stop healthy competition in steel fabricating in the west (TIME, March 3), but the court could...