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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Succeeding governments have tinkered further with the law. As it stands now, at least 10% of net profits must be divided among employees according to their rate of pay. The bonus may not exceed two months' pay. Most prosperous employers consider one month's pay a minimum, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiesta! | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Like any show of its kind, the annual exhibition of contemporary U.S. art that opened in Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week bulged with duds. Artists not invited to exhibit would consider the show too small, but for gallerygoers it was far too big. Of the 161 painters represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Handful of Fire | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The Council would do well to consider not only the ineffectiveness of its latest resolution, but also its implications for freedom of association at Harvard.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reconsider, Gentlemen | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

The candidates' door-to-door canvassers, on their rounds of South Bradford's uniform grey stucco houses, could tell almost before they spoke to the people inside whether they were for Labor or for the Tories. South Bradford's class distinctions are expressed, among other ways, by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Front Door v. Back Door | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The Call of the Hour. The civil authorities on whom Father Lombardi called last week had realized at last that action was urgent. A government law, passed three years ago, had granted Italy's peasants the right to move onto certain fallow lands-provided they first obtained permission from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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