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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The most important of the island's defenses is the air force. On the airfields which dot Formosa's western coast, some 300 operable aircraft-fighters, bombers, transports-are ready to fly. But most military observers doubt that the air force can remain in operational condition longer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Report on Formosa | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailor's Rest | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The lawyers also referred to Athanasaw v. US (Florida, 1913): "Procuring or aiding the interstate transportation of a girl for the purposes of employing her under such surroundings as tend to induce her to give herself up to a condition of debauchery . . . constitutes the offence denounced by the act."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers Splash Cold Water On Crimson's Bathtub Plan | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

An Essential Condition. If Boston was pleased with Munch, there were also reasons why Munch could be pleased with Boston. As U.S. cities go, it had a long tradition of serious music: it had celebrated the end of the War of 1812 with performances of portions of Haydn's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The orchestra to which Charles Munch has fallen heir was not the U.S.'s oldest. It was founded in 1881, 39 years after the New York Philharmonic. But it was the second oldest symphonic organization, and Conductor Munch was a descendant of a distinguished line of "permanent" conductors. Founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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