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Acting on the week-old advice of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, President Eisenhower dramatically offered $15 million worth of food to hungry Easy Germany, and gave the Reds a chance to refuse it. They did, calling the offer an "insult," and thereby stood convicted of condemning East Germans to hunger. U.S. food supplies would still be shipped to Germany, and pictures of U.S. freighters, Hamburg-bound with milk, lard and flour, blazed in Europe's newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The Problem Is Germany | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...honeymoon is over. The World Series was guaranteed to be dull and lustreless, coming on the heels of the most exciting pennant race in the 75 years of major league baseball. Indeed, the only exciting moment in the series came when the Glants fell back on the week-old script. But somehow they couldn't do it over in just the same...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

Colonel Robert Hart, an assistant to Hershey in Washington and a director of Selective Service publicity told the CRIMSON Wednesday that no immediate changes were expected in college students' status. Officials could not clarify a week-old statement by Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg, who told a Congressional Committee that deferments for students might have to be ended altogether during this coming year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Not Hit by New Draft Rule | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...town garbage dump in St. Johnsbury, Vt. (pop. 10,500), the body of a week-old baby was found wrapped in brown paper. A hospital shirt led police to the baby's mother. She admitted disposing of the body, but denied killing the baby or seeing it die. She had taken her illegitimate child from the hospital soon after its birth, she said, left it with a married couple from Plymouth, N.H., who had a child of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Foster Mother Mystery | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Harry Bridges flew to Hawaii last week for an admiring look at the 14-week-old blockade that his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union had thrown up around the islands. He got there just in time to learn how Hawaii's tiny legislature felt about it. By unanimous vote of the senate, and a 24-to-6 majority in the house, the legislators empowered Governor Ingram Stainback to seize the docks owned by the seven stevedoring companies, hire stevedores at pre-strike wage rates ($1.40 an hour) and get the ships moving, after listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Harry Looks Things Over | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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