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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost all of CATC's American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Coup | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Then came the time when bayonets were superseded by other, blunter weapons. In a single air raid five years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put into a wheelbarrow." Part of the wheelbarrow's load was a steel filing case containing some recent orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Unavoidable Delay | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Like a man thinking out loud, Scientist Bush tries to answer certain questions: What would a third world war be like? Would the U.S. be ready for it? Could the U.S. win it? Could civilization survive the holocaust made possible by the new techniques of war? No one is better qualified to answer such questions than Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and of the project which produced the atom bomb; but in answering them he only half succeeds in removing from them the terror of the half-seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 44, belligerent, trombone-tootling bandleader (the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"), and third wife Jane New Dorsey, 26: their first child (his third), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Catherine Susan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Mallory Smith '52 of Winchester won second place and will be manager of the freshman team for the coming season. Samuel H. Ordway '52, of Winthrop House and New York City, finished third in the elections and will manage the Jayvee squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horwood Is Selected '50 Football Manager | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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