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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen months ago Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was full of pith and vinegar. In the House of Commons his strong voice rasped: "I will stake my political future on solving this [the Palestine] problem." Last week, sick & tired and with a voice that was little more than a heavy sigh, Ernie Bevin told the House that he had failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Another Twelve Months | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Bacteria found in deep sea mud might soon make oil wells as buggy as vinegar works. Last week Dr. Claude E. ZoBell, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., announced that he was well along on a process to infect exhausted oilsands with these bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ferrets in the Oilfields | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...showing an aloof U.S. ploughing "the lonely furrow" straight across Orr's carefully cultivated world food field. And a Daily Mirror artist savagely crucified an agonized male figure labeled "World Hunger" on two skyscrapers marked "Wall Street," captioned his cartoon: "I thirst . . . and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it to His mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Lonely Furrow | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...Died. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 63, tough, leathery wartime commander of the U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during the first grim two years of the war; of a liver ailment; in San Francisco (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

What do they think of union-needling Columnist Westbrook Pegler? Pungent examples: "Westbrook Pegler is a knight in brilliant array who should be knocked from his horse." "A sour-vinegar writer . . . who exposes the abuses of labor unions without giving due account to the good work that most unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pro-Labor Priests | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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