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The power squeeze on Iran grew tighter by the day. Sharp Russian pressure was bearing down from the north, and now a mild U.S. push was coming up from the south. Between them lay the helpless, hapless Government of Premier Ebrahim Ha-kimi.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Heating Up | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Out of this morsel of plot and a minimum of action Playwright Brown somehow squeezes enough to keep an audience pretty interested. He does it largely through brisk talk and lively G.I. gags and through the human, antiheroic picture he paints of soldier life. But though he can squeeze out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

But with all its troubles Shanghai still has the optimism of the gambler who knows he is going to fill his flush and take the pot. One U.S. businessman bent my ear for half an hour with his troubles: lack of cooperation from the State Department, the Chinese "squeeze," Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: It's Wonderful | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Simone Simon, caught in the Manhattan housing squeeze, fought eviction from her $240-a-month sublet apartment. Her landlord, caught in the same squeeze, wanted to get back in fast, before his wife bore the baby she expected soon. "I would be happy to leave if I could find somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sights & Sounds | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Many a Briton who had voted Labor wondered and worried. But Labor was undeterred. Buttressed by the people's renewed mandate in municipal elections (see above), it proceeded inflexibly on its course to state ownership. The Bank of England had lost its battle, the coal owners were reconciled to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Onward II | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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