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...Soviet delegate, an economist named Nikolai Feonov, told a Russianized version of Aesop's fable about the wolf and the lamb, in which the lamb retorted to the wolf's accusations with such vexingly clever answers that the wolf finally ate the lamb for its impertinence. The lamb, of course, was the Soviet Union, the wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U. N.: Wolves & Lambs | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...front of a meat shop in Cincinnati appeared a girl in a shepherdess costume, leading a lamb. The butcher put out a proud banner: "Mary had a little lamb, and so have we." The reason for a little lamb and mutton: slaughtering of lambs and sheep was down only 39% from the levels of a year ago ; beef and pork slaughtering was down more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Everybody's Poison | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Kinkeldy, former professor of Musicology at Cornell, will he visiting Lecturer in music under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund, which as in the past sponsored such men as Bela Bartok, Georges Euesco, Aaron Copland, Gustav Holst, and Hugo Leichtentritt. Kinkeldy will conduct a seminar in musical history this fall and will also teach the University's introductory course in music research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Department projects Spring Symposium on Criticism of Music | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...week (ending Aug. 29) while the machinery of bureaucracy figured the new meat prices. They picked Sept. 9 as the date to put them into effect in the butcher shops. Nobody knew what they would be, although OPA Boss Paul Porter guessed "at or near June 30 levels." But lamb feeders, cut off from a $36 million Government subsidy, were sure their product would have to jump at least 5? a lb. Beef feeders, still smarting under similar subsidy treatment, figured 1#162; a Ib. Meanwhile, meat producers frantically rushed their crops to market (see BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Prices: New Level | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...push the old Reynolds off the market. But shipments of the older model had already fallen off (less than 125,000 will be shipped in August v. 450,000 shipped in June). This, Reynolds thought, was only part of the summer buying sag. Then why the cheaper model? Said Lamb: "The other firms will be making cheaper ones, so why should we wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Reynolds Rides Again | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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