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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force jet squadrons flew over the capital in a show of strength. Taking no chances, the U.S. and British embassies ordered their nationals off the streets (and thus had little inkling of what was going on). Kassem's soldiers searched all cars for arms and ammunition. To add to the drama, Staff Major Salim Alfakhri, Iraq's director of broadcasting, went on Iraqi TV to display sporting guns, pistols, knives and brass knuckles that, he said, were to have been used in the plot. Communist-line Baghdad newspapers quickly labeled U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Strange Conspiracy | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...week announced another boost. Orders are coming in so fast that Rambler will increase its capacity from 330,000 to 440,000 cars annually. To complete the expansion before the 1960 model year, Romney will spend $10,150,000 on Rambler's facilities at Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., add at least 4,500 to the present payroll of some 18,000. With sales now running at a rate of more than 300,000 a year, Romney has upped his sights, expects to reach an annual rate of 400,000 by late fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Ramblers | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Remarks by John Mason Brown '23, enlivened the meeting's proceedings. Brown, in a semi-serious proposal to add $10 to every student's tuition in order to procure funds for student drama, noted, "The University spends over $100,000 a year on athletics; the teams have shown that this is unrewarding. Why not spend a few dollars on the theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers Like Design For Proposed Theatre | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...even King himself has had time to add up all the statistics of his new domain. With a women-and-children-first editorial policy. Amalgamated peddles everything from Baby's Own Annual to Love Story Library, puts out 29 weeklies, e.g., prim, prosperous Woman's Weekly (circ. 1,615, 778), and nine monthlies. Like the Mirror-Pictorial, Amalgamated has its assorted paper mills and TV stations. King already had Britain's strongest newspaper chain anchored firmly by London's raucous Daily Mirror (circ. 4,526,453) and the equally raucous Sunday Pictorial (circ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of Kings | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...physical education. Not notably fast but extraordinarily shifty and sure-handed on offense; blossomed this year on defense, piled up end sweeps, helped his team hold Army's famed halfbacks Anderson and Dawkins to 19 yds. rushing in 14 carries. The pros like him, but feel he must add a good deal of weight to withstand the inevitable pounding a player gets in the big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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