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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Like a Pig." Confidence in the government has been slipping during the past ten months. The public learned about the government's growing deficit for the first time last July. Now bankers expect that by the end of 1950 the deficit will be more than $200 million, ten times the deficit of June...
Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...
Helped by a 3½-knot ebbing tide and an 8-mile quartering wind, Nigl buzzed alone past the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, marking the finish opposite Manhattan's west 80s. At first, on the assumption that he was just another sightseer, no one paid much attention to him. He circled the utter twice, waving frantically. Belatedly the marathon committee took note of the approximate finish time: 3 hours 18 minutes. It cracked Scott's 1949 record by more than 10 minutes, for an average speed of 39.3 m.p.h...
...series will illustrate great quotations from history, supplied by the University of Chicago's Mortimer Adler (TIME, April 24). As in the past, Paepcke will get "fine" modern artists to do the job. "When everybody else begins using them," Paepcke says, "we'll switch to the standard commercial ones...
...past five years, the number of soap operas on the two major networks has dropped from 38 to 31. Might the decline be developing into a trend? Next week two more soap operas, Today's Children and Light of the World, will slip off the air. But listeners need not be too hasty about cheering a clear gain. The replacement for the soap operas is a new giveaway, sponsored by General Mills and called Live Like a Millionaire (weekdays, 2:30 p.m., NBC). Its gimmick: children are invited to bring their "talented" parents to the studio to compete...