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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fact. The Fund let Havenga get away with it this time, saying: "The Fund regrets that [Havenga] has chosen to make declarations which can only tend to undermine [its] exchange policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Golden Fleece | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...most important and controversial figures in U.S. art* His allegories of postwar Germany and the U.S. had the robust realism of a modern Bruegel and often the satiric bite of Hieronymus Bosch. His colors might range from the muddy to the garish, and his compositions might tend to be needlessly cluttered, but each painting told a story and usually made it stick. Says Koerner: "Telling a thought-out story is the only way, by God, to inject life into this cadaver of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painted Stones | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Louis gives the back of his hand to the latest variety of jazz, bebop (or bop). The boppers, who know the way he feels, tend to speak of him in the past tense. "Nowadays," says Negro Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, "we try to work out different rhythms and things that they didn't think about when Louis Armstrong blew. In his day all he did was play strictly from the soul-just strictly from his heart. You got to go forward and progress. We study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...down elevations in the land. Inside the tube would be two belts, one carrying coal north from the coal-mining towns along the Ohio River, the other carrying ore south from lake freighters to the steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons of limestone a year-at about half the price of present railroad rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: High Road | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...wear sunglasses (they tend to make the eyes more sensitive to light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Some TV Don'ts | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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