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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that the training and preparation of vast armies . . . has been definitely outdated by the atomic bomb. In the event of any future conflict the most vulnerable point of attack will be any point where people are massed together. ... Armies as we have known them are as out-of-date now as the bow & arrow, and the sooner we realize it the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

August 1929-TIME'S morgue began to grow from a file labeled by Foreign News Researcher Cecilia Schwind "material which ought to be kept." TIME'S morgue is now a vast fact silo with a staff of 57 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: TIME'S MILESTONES | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...1920s business news was especially depersonalized. To get business out of the dusty gloom of the financial pages, to tell what one TIME editor called "the vast and lurid and exciting and beautiful bibliography of balance sheets," TIME broke new ground. It went to great pains to get a picture of Sosthenes Behn (the only available picture had a beard which he had shaved long before), and introduced the Hartford brothers to their A. & P. stores' customers. Out of those efforts grew FORTUNE. Even in its early years, TIME was highly selective about the three-inch, one-column portraits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: TIME'S People and TIME'S Children | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Catastrophic Paradoxes. And yet, as 20th Century civilization reaches a climax, its own paradoxes grow catastrophic. The incomparable technological achievement is more & more dedicated to the task of destruction. Man's marvelous conquest of space has made total war a household experience and, over vast reaches of the world, the commonest of childhood memories. The more abundance increases, the more resentment becomes the characteristic new look on 20th Century faces. The more production multiplies, the more scarcities become endemic. The faster science gains on disease (which, ultimately, seems always to elude it), the more the human race dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...cities are bombed, said Rear Admiral C. J. Brown, "there will emerge vast numbers of walking people, consisting of women, children and the aged. Thousands of them walking, but a great number, even though they walk, will not live. During the immediately succeeding hours, and the dark days which follow, who will bear the burden of the professional care of the survivors?" He answered his own .question: civilian doctors. The Army doctors will be too busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Radiation | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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