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For Moses Pendleton, a hulking Connecticut Yankee who had started with American Woolen in 1903 as a clerk, all this sounded like the bad old days. From 1925 to 1946, American Woolen made the goods for one out of every six men's suits in the U.S. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOOL: The Bad Old Days | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Down in the basement of Lyman Labs, Nobel Prizewinner Percy W. Bridgman is learning what happens to things when you squeeze them hard. With huge hydraulic presses, Bridgman has squeezed one cubic inch of matter with the pressure of 1000 trailer trucks.

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Physicists Twirl Atoms, Aim Radio | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

After two lean years in a Hollywood jungle that has never been more perilous. Eagle Lion-the first addition to big-time U.S. film studios in 14 years-was at last making good. Under able President Arthur B. Krim, a 38-year-old lawyer who tackled his job with virtually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Small Wonder | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Mahogany Exodus. Louis was a natural. He could blow clear and true, hitting the notes hard and clean. He never had to squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

In most of the U.S., "squash" is still only a vegetable. But in some large cities, most notably Philadelphia, Boston and New York, it is a fast, sweaty court game for young men, and the middle-aged who cling to the illusion of physical fitness. A businessman who has no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed & Sweat | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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