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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Rankin's justification for his monstrous $150 billion veterans' pension bill [TIME, Feb. 28] is that he would rather see the money go to ex-servicemen than to have it thrown down the "sinkholes of Asia, Europe and Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Last week the item was rent control. The Administration wanted it extended until March 1951. Republicans argued instead for a wait-&-see extension to run only until July 1. Dixiecrat E. E. ("Goober") Cox of Georgia was blunter: "Continue controls for 90 days and then have the whole thing thrown out the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Very, Very Close | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...honor of the occasion the University has thrown open the Hygiene Building parking lot for opera-goers. Dining Halls will allow women guests for the Wednesday and Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Resuscitates Opera Tradition | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...there drifts a bitter wind of social hatred and malice. Families herded into camps snarl with venom against the cozy villages near by. "If only the Russians would come for a few weeks," said one old refugee from East Prussia. "It would warm my heart to see the Bavarians thrown out of their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Report from Munich | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...coups. And besides, radio couldn't be "satisfied indefinitely with the same material, the same performers, and the same programs." But NBC was nonetheless glad to be keeping some of its own: Fibber McGee & Molly, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Bob Hope, "Duffy's Tavern." Trammell had also thrown together, he revealed, 30 fresh programs, which will employ such well-known stars as Cinemactors Charles Boyer, Rosalind Russell, Olivia de Havilland, Gary Grant and James Mason, as well as Comics Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Henry Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Future of NBC | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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