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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Communist attitude, but the balance of criticism has shifted. Now more of these people seem to think that TIME'S viewpoint on the news tends to the Communistic side. Wrote one: "You have definitely listed yourselves with the Left Wingers, et al., who are set upon changing our form of government." Said another: "If you prefer to be a traitor and love Russian Communism, come out in the open with it." And a third: "You whitewash the Communist news...
...course, getting letters on both sides of this controversial issue doesn't prove that TIME is right, either. But it indicates that TIME has maintained a consistent point of view while the scenery changed. From its beginning in 1923, TIME has been consistently critical of any totalitarian form of government, whether it was Nazi, Fascist or Communist. In particular, TIME has long been an outspoken foe of Communism. Even during the early postwar period, when pro-Russian feeling ran high, TIME'S editors were warning of the dangers of Communist expansion abroad and infiltration at home...
...trade deficit has grown despite rich transfusions of American aid which last year amounted to $324 million and this year will bring another $260 million into the islands. Much of the $2½ billion U.S. postwar aid was in the form of surplus military property. Distribution of this property became a gigantic swindle. I asked a businessman what he was doing. He answered with candid cynicism: "Last year I was in the surplus property racket, and this year I am taking life easy...
Medical researchers have long disagreed bitterly over the cause of atherosclerosis (the most dangerous form of hardening of the arteries, which leads to heart attacks). Last week, thanks to some technically brilliant work at the University of California, the end of the disagreement seemed to be in sight...
Earlier tests, conclusive or not, have called forth new theories of rain-formation. The old explanation, which the Weather Bureau still favors, worked in terms of complex systems of wind. Rainmakers claim that precipitation depends more on nature's providing enough particles on which, raindrops can form-or on man's providing artificial particles, like silver iodide nuclei. To explain how this "seeding" can result in a violent storm, they provide a detailed "chain-reaction" theory...