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...only recently, in deference to La Prensa-led opposition, they had put off the controversial oil deal till July. To place themselves beyond suspicion during the investigation, the three Apra Cabinet ministers resigned, thereby causing the Cabinet to fall. Apra's La Tribuna offered a $3.000 reward for the murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Good Night, Sonny | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...week his name moves high enough on the union hiring hall's list for him to get taken on. Then, togged like the rest of the gang (some 365) in old pants, shoes and T-shirt, he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo from 7 till 5. At week's end he may have earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Dockside Dictator | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Wood Jr., son of famed Speed-boater Gar Wood, had plans for a one-piece, leakproof fiberglass boat. But he does not expect to get into production till spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: What, No Dreamboats? | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...right . . . [the man of the future] would probably have great muscular skill but little muscular strength, a large head, fewer teeth than ourselves, and so on. He would develop very slowly, perhaps not learning to speak till five years of age, but continuing to learn up to the age of 40, and then living several centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unpleasant Individuals | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...year (see chart). So many little people rushed in to buy that the Stock Exchange spent $750,000 in newspaper and magazine ads to warn the lambs away from the wolves. On May 29, the Dow-Jones industrial averages reached 212.5, then turned queasy. But it was not till Sept. 3 that the collapse came. In five hysterical hours, 2,900,000 shares were traded as the averages plummeted 10.51 points, biggest one-day drop since 1937. In the next few weeks, the average dropped to 165.17, and some $14 billion in paper values were wiped out, though production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gulliver Unbound | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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