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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suggest that we utilize only known large-scale reserve of food which is ready to ship immediately and has not already been figured into the national food picture: namely, the vast reserves of C, K, and other emergency rations currently held in depots in U.S. and overseas by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines against contingency of war. Despite international squabbling, I believe even military leaders will admit war is definitely no threat for a minimum of a year or two until other nations are in atom bomb production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...While flying over vast expanses of the world as an Air Transport pilot," Ackerman says, "I had the idea that all the different peoples should be able to get closer together. There's a lot people right here in the U.S. can learn if they'll meet and understand each other...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgis, | Title: Governors, Flying Promoters Will Treat Student to 80-Day Vacation | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

...spectators heard little to remind them of Schacht's vast power as Reich Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank, or of the bloodless crimes involved in his financial manipulation to strengthen the Nazis. Said a U.S. staff member: "He's getting ready for his reception in America-probably brushing up his English." Said a 22-year-old U.S. court stenographer: "My, he's cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Solid Citizen | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Even at the start, Ricardo was a better sort of man than most of his fellow colonists. To these rough, tough Spaniards, many of whom had fought as conquistadors, brutal subjugation of the Indians seemed the obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mexican Tapestry | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...years from now will dishearten these who feel a strong attachment to what remains of Harvard's once-gracious heart. Originally the site of undergraduate dormitories and class-buildings of Georgian structural style, this confine has been transformed by the recurring needs of the past 300 years into a vast architectural pudding, spiced with neat tid-bits such as Boylston and Weld. As the needs grew, the landscaping diminished, the charm receded to three small areas, one of which is to be used for Lamont's edifice. In fifty years of this type of inward expansion, Harvard can expect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squeeze Play | 5/11/1946 | See Source »

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