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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman has decided, somewhat belatedly, that he doesn't like the Chinese Communists. The President expressed his views recently when Acheson suggested that U.S. warships join British warships in breaking the Chinese Nationalist blockade of Communist ports, which interferes with Western trade. Said the President: let the Nationalists first see if they can make their blockade stick. Furthermore, let the Communists prove they can control China or gain the support of the Chinese people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Toward Recognition | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...many new ones that the Farmer is already outgrowing the modern plant which Williams built for $100,000 in Montgomery last year. The Farmer carries little national advertising, yet made $55,000 last year. Since he has become a businessman himself, Williams takes a more kindly, if still somewhat scornful, attitude toward business than he did in the New Deal days. "Making money," says he, "is the easiest thing I ever tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Something Thrown In | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...respectfully submit, therefore, that the Young Progressive are somewhat overhasty in their demands upon Massachusetts Hall. Aubrey K. Loomis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Loyalty | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

Harbury, a graduate student in Applied Physics, was working in a field which requires high voltage but relatively low current. Shocks are somewhat frequent in the electronics laboratories but ordinarily low currents do not prove fatal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Electrocuted in Physics Lab Experiment | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...true that McNiel read the story at 2 a.m. But after perusing the article, McNiel said that although it seemed somewhat tactless, it was a good story and would show students that "HYRC was really doing something." He offered not a single objection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Reply to the Young Republicans | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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