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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Card-Playing. Still far out in front in the circulation parade is Britain's (and the world's) biggest newspaper, News of the World (circ. 8,320,000). In one recent issue, News of the World readers were served up such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mirrors of Life | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

When Princess Margaret made headlines last week by smoking in public, the New York Post Home News (circ. 366,286) was the only paper in Manhattan-and probably in the U.S.-to run a picture of the historic event the same day. The Post photograph showed a cigarette drooping gun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exclusive Picture | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Stimulated Sight. Scientists have long known that the eyes and the ears are not the actual instruments of sight and hearing, but highly selective transmission stations which pick up light and sound waves, translate them into electrical impulses, and carry them to the visual and auditory areas of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Horizons | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Should pension systems be set up for all U.S. industrial workers? Last week, after a survey of 1,000 industrial executives, Mill & Factory magazine reported that 78% of them would go along with some sort of company pension plan. Only 6% think the company should bear the entire cost. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Something for Something | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

All this speculative fever had been stirred up by the hope that the U.S. would raise the price of gold, and thereby devalue the dollar. To this, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder had said no, a thousand times no. He had flatly declared that the U.S. will not change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Gold Fever | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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