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...clock? Looking from the front, the steering wheel of a car is on the right side; the starboard running light of a ship is on the left. To determine the "side" of anything else, you look at it from behind or, really, you consider the object's own viewpoint. Why slight the clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...that defenses will fix everything. But Louis N. Ridenour shows the impotency of anything under one hundred percent defense, and the physical impossibility of anything over ninety percent defense. It is the huge destructive power of the bomb that makes even ten percent efficiency economical from an attacker's viewpoint. For, per square mile destroyed, an atomic bomb of the Hiroshima class is six times cheaper than other explosives, according to General Arnold, and possibly up to one hundred times cheaper, according to J. R. Oppenheimer...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/20/1946 | See Source »

Between bounces he managed to keep a firm, remote-control hand on the San Francisco Chronicle. In the four months since he returned, he has pulled and hauled to give his paper a "global viewpoint," while cooking up ways to cut down the Hearst Examiner's big (243,000-to-166,000) circulation lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Same Old Smith | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...sack-full of mail we received from them recently. They read TIME for pretty much the same reason that Americans do: to keep themselves informed on the significant news of the world. But they have another important reason: they want to know about America and about the American viewpoint. Writes Brendan Bracken. Britain's wartime Minister of Information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...indoctrinated with the prevalent vigorous business optimism. Not even the difficulties of reconversion or the current labor-management disputes seem to dent it. In San Francisco, as elsewhere along the Coast, we talked to as many people as possible to try to hear all sides of the West Coast viewpoint. In the process we also had a chance to talk with Time Inc.'s newsmen who, as I told you sometime ago, have been multiplying out there since we established our first Pacific Coast bureau in San Francisco 11 years ago. There are more of them there today than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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