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...Suffer the Children." I visited three Kalgan factories with a serene revolutionary, Professor Lin Tse-ming, onetime biologist at Peiping's U.S.-sponsored Yen-ching University and now Director of Studies at North China Union University. They were clean and running smoothly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Marx in Kalgan | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...conference was discussing how to get 240,000 tons of northern coal and 1,000 tons of northern steel shipped down in exchange for the south's surplus rice; how to unify Korea's two currencies (Russian occupation rubles in the north, Japanese-issued Bank of Chosen yen in the south); how to form a provisional government from the right and left factions which had grown out of Korea's go-odd political parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Russians Came | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Grand Yen. In Los Angeles, a returned G.I. reported that in Japan an American could buy a wife for 1,000 yen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...tough melodrama in his new thriller. There is the sneering, dame-slapping heel of a hero (Dan Duryea), the bad girl (Joan Bennett) who asks to be slapped around and seems to enjoy it, and the frightened, henpecked little middle-aged cashier (Edward G. Robinson) with a simple-minded yen for the girl. Everyone in the picture misbehaves and everyone comes to a bad end. Even so, studio publicists made the most of a decision by New York censors that the film is "indecent, immoral . . . and tending to corrupt morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...good chunk of its outsized circulation comes from city folk with a nostalgia or a yen for rural life. In this atomic year, The Old Farmer's Almanac's straw-colored covers looked more reassuring than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Twilight, Length of | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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