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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lisa has managed to maintain something of Uddevalla's freshness chiefly by keeping her life separate from the nervous and narcissistic world in which she moves. She prefers simple sport clothes, rarely wears evening gowns off the job, never goes to nightclubs. She keeps herself in fine modeling fettle-underweight (122 lbs.) and hard as a pole vaulter-by swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and gardening on her new four-acre farm. Daughter Mia frequently functions as her mother's severest critic. Whenever she does not like one of Lisa's ads, she pencils in bold crayon corrections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...19th Century, a mighty competitor arose to threaten British trade. U.S. productivity caught and then far surpassed Britain's. The leadership in world finance and trade passed into American hands. Declining Britain could no longer earn enough abroad to pay for what she needed to buy abroad to maintain her living standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Gravel for the Wheels | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...said, when the national income was $70 billion, people thought it fantastic to talk of its ever reaching $125 billion. "Now it has exceeded $200 billion. I don't think President Truman's goal of a $300 billion national income is fantastic at all, provided we maintain the American system about the way it is today. If we get farther over on the side of a planned economy, or socialism, I don't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tell 'Em | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...harsh fact that, if Britain went down in economic distress, dragging the great sterling bloc of nations with her, the U.S. economy would be sorely shaken, the free world's defenses critically weakened. Dean Acheson in Washington and Ernest Bevin in London argued that the need to maintain U.S.-British unity must influence economic decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Briefing for Washington | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...pick as few quarrels as possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First 100 Years | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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