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...Jerusalem, holy city of Jew, Moslem and Christian, every political skirmish leaves a wide-open wound. A talent for healing is a prime requisite for the job of the British High Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Three- Way Compromise | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...remained for newly elected Cowboy Glenn Taylor, the pride of Idaho, to supply the inevitable comic relief. Gathered with his wife & children on the Capitol steps, the wide-open Senator, banjo in hand, wailed his lament. Sample verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The 79th Sits | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

This last seemed to be a wide-open door, thus brought the greatest flood of claims. Actually, it is a mere chink, well guarded by the Bureau's multitude of hairline distinctions, and holds little hope for war babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Try to Get It | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...address, though brief, was shrewdly aimed: Candidate Dewey was picking an inviting and wide-open target; he knew that it would take an extraordinary amount of New Deal ingenuity to devise an honest and sense-making defense of eleven years of tax boggling by the White House, the Treasury, and a Democratic Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Time for a Change | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

They started the Fisher Body Co. in Detroit in 1908. Fred was convinced that the lusty young auto industry would never grow into long pants until it gave up its wide-open touring cars for all-weather sedans. The Fishers concentrated on the mass production of sedan bodies, which were then hand-built and expensive. Their first big order was for 150 sedan bodies. (In 1941, G.M.'s Fisher Body division turned out more than 2,000,000 bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Body by Fisher | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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