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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound might work no miracles; but at least it was honest. If honesty was still the best policy, Cripps had moved his country toward recovery-even though it might have to travel through more austerity to get there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Devaluation | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...cool poise of the youthful Bobby Jones (who played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach. Though Marlene came back strong on the last nine, she was down one on the 18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steaks & Stymies | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Problems for All. The conference proved that hardly a science or branch of technology lacks problems for the computers.-Physicists, chemists, aircraft de signers had plenty of them to offer. So did psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by computation difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Citizens of Vancouver | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter. The nationalists had banded together into a new press association and raised a war chest, to wage the fight. A majority of the former Nazis had another blackjack in their pockets. Though they had not been allowed to publish, the occupation authorities had not taken away their ownership of the presses on which most of the licensed papers were printed under five-year leases. Democratic publishers feared that the new publishers could break the leases and force them out of business. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War in Germany | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Problems for All. The conference proved that hardly a science or branch of technology lacks problems for the computers.* Physicists, chemists, aircraft de signers had plenty of them to offer. So did psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by computation difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 600 Men & a Machine | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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