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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would Arthur Horner use his vast power in Britain's economic crisis? Arthur Horner's first loyalty is not to his country or his town, to his King or his father. Arthur Horner is a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Old Jim Horner's Boy | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...said. The furniture they made, first for themselves and later for sale, was strong and simple. Yet it is some of the most beautiful furniture ever produced in the U.S. Their solid brick houses and great barns also have an austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay. At a time when the quality of garden seeds was poor, Shakers gained a virtual monopoly of the seed business by the purity and vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One More River to Cross | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Hedda's Weapons. With all these handicaps-and after all, Beethoven was deaf-Hedda has some wicked weapons, and knows how to use them. She can print what she does about Hollywood people because she knows still fancier stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gossipist | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...work her life's mission, Esmerelda first had to give up her most prized possession--the use of her motor. Immobile, she stood for months, swaying gently in the night breezes, beside Radcliffe's Briggs Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esmerelda, a Car with Spirit, Carries On | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

Millions of dollars worth of Cuban sugar may be saved as the result of experiments involving successful use of the new weed-killing preparation 2, 4-D against tree-like woody weeds, it was announced by the University yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weed Killer | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

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