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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right now there is an annual deficit of twelve million tons of coke in Western Europe. [But] we have been able to wipe out this deficit by simple cooperation. . . . We have recommended that henceforth no more coke shall be used for heating houses or stoking factory boilers. All available European coke is to go straight into steelmaking. . . . Blast furnaces shall use more scrap. . . . Germany is littered with scrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Progress at the Palais | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...become so bad that it now jeopardizes the economy of our country . . . thousands of small manufacturers [are] dying for steel; for lack of steel, failures of small businesses are becoming a daily occurrence." Kaiser also managed to get in a plug for his old plea that RFC should wipe out the $85 million balance due on Fontana (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Debate | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...safety of Albany. But Dewey was well aware of the old suspicion in the West that Tom Dewey was just a little too fluent, a little too much the slick Easterner, that actually he was as ardent an advocate of Big Government as any New Dealer. He had to wipe out those suspicions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Calculated Risk | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Quack Farmer Trouble | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear. The trouble is that weeds and crop plants are much alike; one farmer's weed may be another's crop. Any wholesale killer is apt to wipe out both together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grass Killer | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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