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...world's most beautiful city and the worst thing that ever happened to Brazilians-the largest city in the world that is unabashedly and with deep conviction a playground." Dr. Tavares can hardly wait till the capital is moved to the west, and officials can really buckle down to business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Plain Speaker | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Actually, Britain's first Labor Cabinet, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, was in power from January till October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On the Brink | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...like home. They searched no farther. To Cape Breton's coves, its evergreen hills and misty glens, they transplanted names like Beinn Bhreagh. Lochaber, Tantallon and Skir Dhu. The Macdonalds, MacIntoshes, MacLeods, and members of many another Scottish clan settled down to raise sheep, fish for cod and till the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Highland Mod | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...sugar-growers expect a surplus in a few years, the bill tied sugar prices to the cost of living, thus extending a form of parity to sugar-growers. Sugar prices could not go down, no matter what the supply till everything else did too. Industrial users estimated that this will keep prices about 3? a pound higher than in an uncontrolled market. Bakers figured that it would add $30,000,000 a year to the nation's bill for cake alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Saccharine | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Army used his field during the war, so it was not till V-J day that Wehran settled down to making it a freight center. Air freight, he thought, had a big future. Moreover, he liked the spunk of the fledgling air-freight flyers. "Nobody can tell them they can't make a go of it," he said. "Give them 99 reasons why they can't, and they'll give you one reason they can-and you've lost the argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Nest for Fledglings | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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