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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Bank and the Stabilization Fund, twin babes of Bretton Woods, last week pulled on their long pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Open for Inquiries | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...productions this week and following weeks: Sophocles' Chekhov's Oedipus Rex, Uncle Vanya; a Sheridan's twin The bill Critic. of The Old Vic will also make four hour-long broadcasts, starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Plays in Manhattan, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Bette Davis plays identical twins. As the Good Twin she falls in love with a pipe-puffing engineer (Glenn Ford). As the Bad Twin she steals him, pipe & all, marries him, manages to be spectacularly unfaithful. But the Good Twin stays staunch and true despite the Neanderthal attentions of an alarming artist (Dane Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Fortunately for the story, while the sisters are sailing out a storm together, the Bad Twin is drowned. The Good Twin impersonates her sister, goes home to the engineer, but is found out before the Johnston Office can waggle a finger. Somehow, after all this, the stolen life is returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...line, they have risen only another 3.4 percent. With price ceilings on machinery and readily produced consumers' items already lifted and with production of civilian goods at an all-time high, 12 more months of price control would assure an orderly distribution of new goods at existing prices. The twin battles of production and inflation are nearly won, yet manufacturers and farmers, in their greed, are willing to scrap national safety and welfare in a frantic last minute rush for profits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Road to Inflation | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

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