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Frejka: We created such a disproportion between supply and demand that the supply of fuel and power suffered-as is well known-continued interruption. The liquidation of this sabotage of ours will take a long time . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Strains & Scuffles | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

When discrimination is as unintentional and as hard to pin down as it is here, and when it is so largely dependent upon economic and sociological actors, it is not easy to propose a perfect remedy. But a point in which the University has been generally negligent, and which applies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross-Section | 5/17/1950 | See Source »

Being populated for the most part by people who have long since overthrown the Army way of thinking, comparisons with the khaki way of life stop short at the exterior of the one-time hospital wards. The cavernous buildings have been segmented crosswise into five or six sections apiece, each...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Harvardevens, Livable but Expensive, Shapes Up as Real Community | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

The Hucksters is Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June, and M-G-M has paid $200,000 for a seven-year lease of the movie rights. It is dedicated "to those who sometimes awake suddenly to stare into the leisure of the night and consider with brief terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beautee & the Beast | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

The Devil-Doll (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer) is the most ambitious effort ever undertaken in the use of the long-known but seldom-employed technique of photographic disproportion. Lavond (Lionel Barrymore) gets back to Paris from an undeserved sojourn on Devil's Island with a handy means of vengeance on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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