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Chopped Chips. Down went the blue chips. Chrysler fell ¾ points to 68, A.T. & T. 71 to 148, General Motors 6⅝ to 85, U.S. Steel 3 points to 31. The Dow-Jones average dropped a frightening 8 points, to 206.33, scaring even those calm investors who had piled up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bears of War | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

"I know in detail how destructive the A-bomb is. I know quite well how destructive the H-bomb can be, if it can be built. But I ask you: What good comes from the extravagant and sensational picturing of the horrors of atom warfare? Does this serve the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cult of Doom | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Poacher. In Greeley, Colo., Henry C. van Schaak Jr. explained that he opened fire on a low-flying airplane only because it kept scaring the ducks he was trying to shoot.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week the show got a change in name: this season it will be NBC Theater. Explained NBC's press department: "We thought the word 'university' was scaring listeners away."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alias | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

"Dragons" & "Gents." Last week's rip through Sepulveda Boulevard (where 30 hot rodders condescended to mingle with jalopy racers) was just an impromptu "drag race," a hell-raising skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Gangway! | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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