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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion to date) will be thrown away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Two Billion a Year | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

West gained a first down on the 26 but the attack begged down when Roche was thrown for an eight-yard loss and the Cross took the ball on downs. In two Cross took the ball on downs. In two plays it had a first down on the Crimson...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Stops Holy Cross, 22-14, for First 1949 Victory; West and Roche Spark Offense | 10/30/1949 | See Source »

...know all that," the country-mouse wiggled his whiskers impatiently, "but what are they doing here? Isn't it enough they've thrown you out of house and home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Gnawing Issue | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

...other years the CRIMSON would have found such a condition of the country shocking. Courts would have thrown out the case against the Communists. America has never been a land of persecution. Here no one has been afraid to talk up; the police have not been permitted to keep files on the beliefs of citizens. When the situation has been momentarily altered, as in the period which gave a neighboring city unpleasant notoriety, or when a "Red Hunt" after the First World War put hundreds in chains, it has been to the shame of our nation. The fact that because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After the Trial | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...Wall Street, baffled brokers did not know what to make of things. Despite the strikes in steel, coal and aluminum, which had thrown at least 1,000,000 out of work and caused the worst postwar shutdown, the stock market kept right on going up. Last week, in some of the busiest trading of the year, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 1.59 points to 186.78, a new high for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brave Bulls | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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