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The boom was even higher elsewhere. In South Carolina and Kentucky, land prices had more than doubled. In Montana they were up 82%. Farmers did most of the buying to cash in on skyhigh food prices, but everybody seemed to be nudging the new boom up.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Land Boom | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Japanese strike methods are sometimes unique. A favorite form of "strike" is to occupy the plant, continue work, and make the management lose face by increasing production. Strikers at a Mitsui-owned coal mine barred all management personnel from the pits and stepped daily output up from 250 tons to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The New Thing | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

No longer would girls be sold to the whoremasters by impoverished parents and be bound to work until they could buy their way out with a niggardly share of their earnings. (Sales by husbands and sweethearts were banned in 1940.) Henceforth "Double-Blossomed Plum" and her many sisters would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Yoshiwara Democratized | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

The first two of these editions have been reaching thousands of readers in Latin America and Canada for a long time (85% of all U.S. citizens south of the border read TIME'S plane-sped Latin American edition every week; in Canada TIME'S circulation has doubled in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Apples | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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