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It was estimated, for example, that 100,-ooo casualties would require 600,000 pints of blood over a period of six weeks. It would take 17 freight cars to hold that many pint bottles. To distribute it to casualty stations the city would have to mobilize every vehicle with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: The City Under the Bomb | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

The persistent will get the hang of it. Spaceman's hero may live in the 22nd Century, serve as third mate on a 200,000-m.p.h. Earth-to-Venus spaceship, and burble endlessly about ray guns and spaceports, but Lancelot himself is an old standby. Adorned with an "oversized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Space Ahoy! | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

The Indians postponed their annual spring Bear Dance for a day, poured across the reservation in battered cars, in wagons and on horseback to meet the attorney in a dilapidated school at Fort Duchesne. After they had filled the folding chairs, and squatted in impassive lines along the walls, Lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Back Pay for the Utes | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

Greens & Beans. The land companies, owners of mammoth tracts of western acreage, started it all. New Englanders knew that their own land was stubborn and poor-and the ads spread the word (truly) of rich soil and (falsely) of good roads and easy fortunes. After the Revolutionary War, thousands of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Go West! | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

When Multimillionaire Southwest Oilman William H. McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Mountain Man | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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