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...fifth of the population of Halifax war doubled up or living in attics or basements. All last week the Dominion awaited a wondrous new housing plan which Reconstruction Minister C. D. Howe was to unveil. When he spoke, in Vancouver, the best he could do was to promise 6,000 more homes-a year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Thanksgiving Day, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...every American boy within earshot of a radio knows, Cowboy Tom Mix's* wondrous compass-magnifying glass may be obtained for only 15? and one Shredded Ralston box top. The same price plus one box top of General Mills' Kix will bring the "awe-inspiring" atomic-bomb ring with its "concealed observation lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Frenzied Flashes | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...wondrous revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pooh to a Callow Throstle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Butcher, T. E. Lawrence-have put it into their own idioms, neither Homer's nor that of poetry. E. V. Rieu's is the best of the more modest prose translations intended as transparencies, making it easy for the reader to follow the Odyssey as a wondrous novel of adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odyssey on the Newsstand | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...stand as the world's No. 1 toy trainmaker after four wartime years spent turning out $19 million worth of navigational instruments, hoped to do a $10,000,000 business this year. To do it, Lionel wanted a million catalogues to tell U.S. small fry about its wondrous new models that smoke and whistle while they work by electronics. But no job printer was able to handle the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Price of Liberty | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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