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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During a recent Detroit trial, at which six party leaders were convicted, an FBI undercover agent conferred with the trusting Communist defendants the day before he testified as a surprise witness against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fight for Security | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...officials of the U.S. Mutual Security Agency in Italy were driving north from Rome to the Italian industrial city of Vicenza (pop. 82,000). One was Walter C. McAdoo, 56, a Philadelphian and former pulp-mill executive, and the other was James L. Hockenberry, 54, a onetime agent for Prudential Insurance in Lebanon, Pa. and wartime specialist in on-the-job industrial training. Their mission: to find an Italian plant willing to try out American methods of increasing productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FOREIGN AID THAT KEEPS AIDING | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...rugged three-day tournament in Baltimore, which he won as usual, Eddie went to Niagara Falls and ran most of his opponents off the courts. In the finals, he faltered for a moment, got the range again and took a close match from the former U.S. champion, FBI Agent Joe Alston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tireless Champ | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...seven-picture production schedule, with RKO to handle the making of two films, and act as distributing agent for the other five, to be made by independent producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The $23.5 Million Check | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...Indo-China, "international Communism" is trying to gain "a stranglehold on the people," said Dulles, and its agent is Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh. Ho's armies "are supplied with artillery and ammunition . . . much of it fabricated by the Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia and transported across Russia and Siberia, and then down through China to Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Policy for Indo-China | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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