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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...most cases of this sort, Cunningham added, the car is parked on a narrow street, and the snowplow cannot got through. The police will haul the car off, even if it is in a non-restricted area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Will Tow Cars Blocking Snowplows | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

...movable holiday, because it depends on the of Easter each year. Just why, beats everybody except these people who like to keep up on sort of stuff. This year it happens to fall on the day before Washington's Birthday. People who know say there is no connection between the holidays...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Truth Bared: 'Mardi Gras' Actually Only Fat Tuesday | 2/21/1950 | See Source »

Though some bankers look aghast at this sort of nonprofit finance, hardheaded Eugene Cray thinks it makes good sense for New England. Said he: "It's a better way than giving them ten years or so of tax exemption, then have them move away. This way, they'll own a substantial investment in the village and have to assume responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yankee Horse Trade | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...four gargantuan volumes, the job of collecting the public documents of Franklin Roosevelt is completed. Totaling 13 volumes (8,625 pp., 35½ lbs.) in all, The Public Papers make a monumental record of a nation in crisis and an indispensable source for future historians, even if not the sort of thing an ordinary reader will care to pick up on a rainy Sunday afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puzzle for Totalitaricms | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...droll characterization of Lucifer, a sort of feline Charles Laughton. By remembering that his tale takes place "once upon a time in a faraway land," Disney avoids the temptation of gagging it up with anachronisms or excessive cartoon acrobatics. With just the right wizard's brew of fancy and fun, sugar and spice, he makes an old, old story seem as innocently fresh as it must to the youngest moppet hearing it for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 20, 1950 | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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