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...rail strikes (see cut), now are rich, conservative, and strictly disciplined. Whitney and Johnston typify the transition. Each is a proud, rugged individualist who rules his tight little empire with strong hands, who has settled himself at the top of his union heap by keeping a strong thumb on the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: These Two Men | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Before the game, deadpanned Robert William Andrew Feller, six pounds underweight at 183, went through his usual routine. He hunted up a razor-blade and shaved down the hard calluses on his right thumb and ring-finger. He picked up a baseball to see if it felt light and small (a good omen) or heavy like a pumpkin (a bad omen). It felt soso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Quite a Feller! | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...dominated press. Said U.P. President Hugh Baillie (whose outfit, along with A.P., the report roundly rapped for refusing to Jet the State" Department broadcast their news abroad in peacetime): "I cannot think of a speedier way for the press to get under the Government's thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fight over Freedom | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...shipped from Wichita to any point in the U.S. for less than $100. Its biggest drawback is the drawback of all such houses: building codes automatically bar them in most cities. Bucky Fuller's house has one more drawback. It stands out like a fat thumb among conventional houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Fuller's Fancy | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...stand up. This was accompanied by a continuing temperature of about 102 and I felt thoroughly achy all over. By the end of the third day practically all muscles from the chest down were involved. Above the chest the only symptom was a weakening of the two large thumb muscles making it impossible to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: F.D.R.'s Case History | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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