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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here" on the Lexington's hull in a shipyard, won a contest for the best explanation of how the Kilroy thing started, received as a reward one streetcar from the Boston Elevated Railway Co. If Kilroy can get it home, that will be the children's wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...hundred and twenty-five years ago, the whoopers, pure white with black wing tips and four feet tall, nested in the Middle West. Early settlers told of their "air circuses." Spreading seven-foot wings, they would dance in airborne minuets, circling, diving, lining up on sides. Their powerful whoops, from five-foot, trumpet-like windpipes coiled within their chests, could be heard three miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No More Minuets | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

This week at The Hague Dr. Johannes A. Ringers, Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, quit the Cabinet in protest over the agreement, and some leaders of the Catholic party's right wing also objected. Premier Louis J. M. Beel (Catholic party) stood pat, said: "The kingdom will neither be broken nor murdered. It will be remodeled and named according to the requirements of our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Birth of a Nation | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Winged Victory. In Woodland, Calif., duck hunter Charles Roller found a pelican with a broken wing, started to set it, had to struggle to keep the bird quiet, got his head caught in its 15-inch beak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Carson Chang's Rightist Social Democrats said perhaps. Dr. Lo Lung-chi's left-wing adherents were noncommittal. Back at the red house, the poll takers reported. The Generalissimo listened, then ordered a postponement-not for three weeks but three days. Unhappily, but feeling they could do nothing else, the five registered for the Assembly, cracked the united front of China's "third parties" against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vital Step | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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