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...Soviet citizen may not leave his home for as little as 24 hours without notifying the police; that no one may go abroad without permission (under penalty of death) or even travel freely in Russia itself; that divorce is virtually impossible except for the rich; that hundreds of thousands toil and die in forced-labor camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Dilemma | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Toward a Richer Life. Despite the size of his empire. The Voice has no salary or manpower problems. His employes are all church members, and they cheerfully toil twelve hours a day for food, clothing, a bed and expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Profit's Prophet | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...year-old Frank Hague wasted no time in gloating. With his old-fashioned starched collar tight above a chaste pearl stickpin, he went out to remind the people of his years of toil in their behalf. With revival-meeting fervor the Boss told his followers that he was still pure at heart: "Let them point to one blemish on my record as mayor of Jersey City!" Liberation Candidate Paul E. Dougherty almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "... On a salary of never more than $8,000 he can own a summer home worth $125,000, a home in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The People's Friend | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...immensely enjoyed taking over bits & pieces of broken-down railroads in the Deep South, linking them together, and making them work for a profit. The end product of this patient toil is the prosper ous 1,970-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Rail-foad Co., that links Mobile and New Orleans with East St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Highballing the G. M. & O. | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Phil Johnson, who had a Scandinavian indestructibility which no amount of toil seemed to affect, stopped off for a day's work at Boeing's Wichita plant on the way home. That night, without warning, he collapsed with a cerebral hemorrhage. By next evening Phil Johnson was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Phil Johnson | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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