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...things to talk about. In San Francisco, a ship that had recently been carrying G.I.s sailed for Argentina with a load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - DEMOBILIZATION: Home by Christmas? | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Last week, after a three-day debate, the House raised the ante to $700 million, authorized a ten-year building program which would almost double the number of airports in the U.S., would put airfields in 88% of the counties in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Airports Unlimited | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Because she appears more frequently than the other players, Ginger Rogers at tracts the most attention, as a super-tense film celebrity whose, fame & fortune has brought her nothing but loneliness. But there are half a dozen other competent performers who plow their way through this three-day ordeal in the rooms and corridors of Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 22, 1945 | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...cause of this fomentation of tourists was a gleaming, new, $750,000 Latter-day Saints Temple. The sixth temple in the U.S., it was to be dedicated in an elaborate three-day ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For the Faithful Only | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...long in coming. Last week the Communist Political Association went into a special three-day convention, behind closed doors, in a midtown Manhattan clubhouse. At week's end, the 93 shirt-sleeved delegates, following their orders, had unceremoniously kicked Earl Browder off his throne, together with his two top henchmen, onetime Cartoonist Robert Minor and three-time Vice-Presidential candidate James W. Ford, a Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: The Worst Is Yet to Come | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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