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The news was good; yet few consumers seemed to be setting off rockets. Maybe it was just a perverse American custom to worry when prices went up, and worry also when they went down. There was certainly some caution in the air. Florida had never had so many tourists, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Going Down | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Ever since handsome young Hungarian-born Conductor Antal Dorati went to Dallas four years ago, he has labored to make his new countrymen conscious of one of his old: the late great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok. Season after season he pounded Bartok at Dallas-and Dallas music lovers had almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bluebeard in Dallas | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Administration who had labored faithfully for the boss's reelection. The new law, he said, would definitely restore the closed shop.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Men at Work | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Alben Barkley's old job as Senate majority leader would probably fall to Illinois' tall, personable Scott Lucas, Senate whip and Barkley's understudy. Barkley, himself, was expected to step down frequently from the presiding officer's dais to exert his considerable talent for cloakroom leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Jobs, Old Faces | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

His proudest idea was a new egg ("The yolk will be made of smoked meat, the white, of compressed rice, and the shell, of synthetic lime ... It will be delicious"). Under his remorseless hand, builders labored for half a century constructing pavilions, terraces, bridges and lakes. And still, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father Rides Again | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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